Janakpur Hospital (Injection) Incident

Hospital: Janakpur Zonal Hospital (Province Hospital), Janakpur, Nepal

Victims: Health workers and Doctors

Type of violence: Physical

Event: After the death of a 13-year-old boy who was undergoing treatment in the hospital for fever, the bereaved family, relatives and locals manhandled health workers and doctors at the hospital blaming the injection of medication as the cause of death (excessive bleeding due to incorrect position of IV cannula according to another story). However, the hospital had said that the patient died as the guardian took the boy meanwhile the treatment was going on and was taken back to hospital only after his death.

News Links:

1. Boy dies during treatment at Janakpur Zonal Hospital, doctors blamed - myRepublica