Manipal Hospital (Brain Hemorrhage) Incident

Hospital: Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal

Victims: Doctors and Patients in ICU

Type of violence: Physical

Event: A 43-year-old man with brain hemorrhage was referred from the hospital to Kathmandu due to unavailability of neurosurgeons. They were advised to take flight but chose to take the roads, during which time the patient had died. The relatives had notched up the flow of oxygen during the travel leading to emptying of the cylinders. A small group of people then vandalized the ICU of hospital, attacked the doctors and even injured some of the seriously ill patients.

News Links:

1. Manipal Hospital ICU ransacked in Nepal – TwoCircles.net