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| Relatives ransack hospital after youth dies |
| 2008-10-05 |
| CHANDRAPUR: Incenced over the death of a young boy, his relatives thrashed a doctor and ransacked his hospital in Warora on Friday night. As per details, Shwetal Narde (19) from Ram Mandir ward, reportedly suffering from high fever and queasiness, was admitted at Dr Pradeep ParateÂ’s hospital on Thursday night. After tests, the patient was diagnosed to be suffering from jaundice. Dr Parate directed NardeÂ’s family members to take him to Nagpur or Sevagram for emergency treatment by 5 pm. However, they did not comply with the advice and Narde breathed his last around 9 pm. Irked over the death, around 20 persons ,mostly relatives of the deceased, ransacked the hospital and thrashed Dr Parate. Earlier, Shobha Narde, mother of the deceased, lodged a complaint with Warora police station alleging medical negligence. In a counter complaint filed by Dr Parate, he has estimated loss of Rs 16,000. The post-mortem was performed by doctors from Chandrapur civil hospital under camera. Heavy police force was deployed at sub-district hospital, Warora as a huge mob had gathered there while post-mortem was underway. Similar incident in Akola: The brother of a woman and other relatives ransacked the district hospital for women in Akola on Friday night following the death of a newborn due to alleged negligence of the doctor. Usha Deshmukh of Bhod village gave birth to a baby boy on September 30 at the hospital. However, the infant died on Friday evening. Sachin Deshmukh, the maternal uncle of the infant, his relative and colleagues, vented their anger against the doctor and broke the furnitures and window panes. Resident medical officer Dr R H Khatri was badly beaten up by the relatives of the dead infant. The relatives were already informed about the deteriorating health of the newborn and doctors attending took care but unfortunately the infant died, hospital sources said. tnn |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #6 I don't know if India has the problem of retardation and physical handicaps due to marriage of close relatives but I wouldn't be surprised if this were a consideration in these incidents. |
| Posted by: Lionel Jiger8451 2008-10-05 23:30 |
| #5 Saw a couple situations at the County, usually rival gang-bangers put too close to each other in the Trauma Unit. Even with holes in them they had to display how they were muy macho. But we had good security -- I had no idea a sheriff's deputy could be that big -- so the docs, nurses and students never were touched. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-10-05 15:26 |
| #4 Both cities are in (very roughly) the same region of India. Perhaps our John Frum might have insight into whether that is coincidental. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-10-05 11:26 |
| #3 I suspect the thugs would be nominated for Idiot of the Day by their fellow Americans here at the burg. Of course they're benighted fools, N.S. as are the Indians doing the same thing. I'm just saying that this isn't solely an Indian phenomenon. Actions like this come about when un-or ill-educated people encounter problems with advanced technologies they have no way to understand. The British, when they were running refineries in Iran for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, found they had to buy solid gearwheels as opposed to the regular, skeletonized type. Seems the locals kept getting seriously injured by sticking hands and feet in them because when the gearwheel was spinning at speed they couldn't see anything but the outer ring. Since they couldn't see the supporting spokes, their logic assumed they had disappeared and no amount of persuasion/argument/explanation by the British seemed to sink in. In the end, it was just easier to buy solid gearwheels. |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-05 11:25 |
| #2 Let's not just throw rocks at Indians. Hunh? This is from the Times of India. If any one is throwing rocks, it's the Indians. I've read of numerous cases in which gang members have come into E.R.s with bullet-riddled accomplices and told the attending medical personnel that they would either save said accomplice or die themselves. I won't say you haven't, though I haven't, but given the prevalence of EMS, fire and police personnel in ERs, I suspect the thugs would be nominated for Idiot of the Day by their fellow Americans here at the burg. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-10-05 11:02 |
| #1 Let's not just throw rocks at Indians. I'd bet, if Dr. Steve was willing to talk, he's either seen or heard of such threats/actions in American hospitals. I've read of numerous cases in which gang members have come into E.R.s with bullet-riddled accomplices and told the attending medical personnel that they would either save said accomplice or die themselves. People doing such things are simply displaying the logic that Heinlein explained when he said that any sufficiently advanced technology was like magic. All these gun-waving boneheads know is that hospitals contain the magic of healing people, and that if their friend/relative/loved one isn't saved it's because the people who work there just weren't willing to do what was necessary. Ignorance, stupidity and fear are a damned dangerous combination of elements, the mixing of which almost invariably leads to violence. |
| Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-10-05 10:48 |