Sagarmatha Hospital (Snakebite) Incident

Hospital: Gajendra Narayan Singh Sagarmatha Zonal Hospital, Rajbiraj, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Physical

Event: Locals today resorted to vandalising Saptari’s Rajbiraj-based Gajendranarayan Singh Sagarmatha Zonal Hospital accusing the doctors of pronouncing a live child dead following a snake-bite. The boy was forcefully taken to other center from the post-mortem section and declared dead too. Relatives and others went on rampage as they were in illusion.

News Links:

1. Locals vandalise Sagarmathazonal hospital over child’s death - The Himalayan Times