India, July 25 -- A probe has been ordered after a four-year-old boy was allegedly operated on the wrong leg at Shaheed Hasan Khan Mewati Government Medical College and Hospital (SHKM) in Nalhar, Nuh, health officials said on Saturday.

The inquiry was initiated after the child's father, Arif, a resident of Mewli village, alleged in a complaint that doctors operated on his son's healthy right leg instead of the infected left leg on Thursday.

According to the complaint submitted to SHKM director Mukesh Kumar, the child was admitted to the hospital on July 20 with severe swelling, infection and pus formation in his left leg. After an initial examination, doctors advised an ultrasound and referred him to the orthopaedics department.

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