Hospital: Lifeline Hospital, Damak, Jhapa, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Non-violent (Demonstration)

Event: After the death of a 75-year-old woman who was under treatment in ICU at the hospital, the relatives protested in the hospital claiming medical negligence. The patient had been referred to B and C hospital for CT scan and the patient was distressed soon after she was brought back to the ICU in the hospital. The relatives had claimed that the patient was not kept on oxygen for about half an hour when she developed respiratory distress. The hospital had defended saying that the death was due to myocardial infarction.

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1. बिरामीको मृत्यु भएपछि लाइफलाइन अस्पतालमा तनाव | अन्नपूर्ण पोस्ट् (annapurnapost.com)

24 April, 2007 (College of Medical Sciences, Bharatpur)

• At night, 2 doctors and other healthcare workers were attacked.

16 June, 2007 (Koshi Hospital, Biratnagar)

• At night 8:30 PM, bomb was blasted targeting the residence of the head of department of the Pediatrics department of the hospital.

4 August, 2007 (Nepalgunj Medical College)

• The relatives of the patient, who was being treated at the Nepalganj Medical College Teaching Hospital, hurled stones at the doctor's residence and beat him up.

18 August, 2007 (Lifeline Hospital, Damak)

• Locals attacked Lifeline Hospital, Damak and seriously injured the doctors and health workers and vandalized the hospital, ambulance and other vehicles and tried to set fire to it.

11 September, 2007 (Kanti Children Hospital)

• Relatives of the patient beat the doctors at Kanti Children's Hospital regarding the death of the patient.