CMC (death rumor) Incident

Hospital: Chitwan Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Bharatpur, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Physical

Event: The relatives of the 18-year-old patient had vandalized the local Chitwan Medical College blaming the hospital's sheer ignorance behind the demise. However, the patient who was undergoing treatment at the hospital, returned home after recovery. The hospital sources said that the patient who underwent appendicitis was treated placing him under ventilator support after complications. At the same time, the irate relatives had spread rumor and also resorted to vandalize the hospital. The windowpanes of the hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) were broken in the incident of vandalism.

News Links:

1. Patient reported dead returns home after recovery (risingnepaldaily.com)