Chure Hill Hospital (Appendectomy) Incident

Hospital: Chure Hill Hospital, Hetauda, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Non-violent (Picketing, Sit-in)

Event: A 16-year-old boy had undergone an appendectomy in the hospital and was kept in ICU for 2 days in the postoperative period before referral to the Bharatpur medical college. After the patient died, the relatives and locals had picketed the hospital, staged a sit-in with dead body and blocked the East-West highway blaming the doctors for negligence (according to a relative, the Bharatpur medical college stated the cause of death as intestinal injury). They had demanded action against the guilty and compensation.

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1. बिरामीको मृत्यपछि अस्पतालमा प्रदर्शन | अन्नपूर्ण पोस्ट् (annapurnapost.com)