Nigerian doctor narrates how a child's heart stopped after a quack injected into the child's veins drugs that were meant to be injected in the buttocks

A Nigerian doctor has warned members of the public to be careful who they go to meet for treatment whenever they are sick.

He narrated how a child's heart stopped and took two hours to restart due to a quack doctor's mistake.

Doctor Nonso tweeted:

Stop allowing quacks treat you.

A "chemist" injected a child with antibiotic mixed with lidocaine meant for the buttocks into the veins

Lidocaine went straight to the heart and stopped it!

Rushed child to hospital, it took us almost 2 hours to get his heart beating again