Nagarik Hospital (Chest pain) Incident

Hospital: Nagarik Community Teaching Hospital, Bhaktapur, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Physical

Event: After the death of a 38-year-old lady, relatives had accused that the patient was given medicine for gastritis instead of myocardial infarction. However, the hospital had claimed that the patient had died due to the cardiac arrest when the patient suffered from MI in the course of the treatment. The relatives of the deceased had resorted to vandalizing the hospital claiming that the injection given was the cause of death.

News Links:

1. Nagarik hospital tense following patient’s death - The Himalayan Times