Hospital: Ujyalo Samudayik Polyclinic, Dhankuta, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Physical

Event: The relatives of the patient vandalized the polyclinic after her death following an injection for the treatment of abdominal pain.

News Links:

1. https://ekantipur.com/pradesh-1/2023/10/17/polyclinic-ransacked-after-patient-died-17-28.html

Hospital: Gulmi Hospital, Tamghas, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: None

Event: The relatives of the deceased (a 7-year-old-girl admitted for abdominal pain) chanted slogans and ransacked the hospital premises claiming the negligence of hospital and health workers. Relatives claimed that the patient was improving and suddenly went unconscious and started frothing once the patient was given an injection by a nurse. Medical superintendent Dr. Rajendra GC was man-handled by the crowd.

News Links:

1. Tension grips Gulmi Hospital following death of seven-year-old girl - myRepublica
2. Gulmi District Hospital under tension after girl's death | Ratopati
3. Gulmi Hospital tense after child’s death during treatment (kathmandupost.com)

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Hospital: Kanchanpur Municipal Hospital, Kanchanpur, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Physical

Event: After death of a 16-year-old patient with fever and hemoptysis, irate relatives vandalized the hospital claiming the negligence of treating doctor. They claimed that death occurred within 2 minutes of administering and injection. 

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Hospital: Green City Hospital, Basundhara, Kathmandu, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Physical

Event: A patient with fever with the diagnosis of typhoid and pneumonia was admitted in the hospital. The patient had to be prescribed adrenaline and patient had used 7 out of 10 doses bought. After the mortality of the patient, when relatives returned the remaining 3 doses to the pharmacy, they found that they were expired. The relatives then claimed that the death was due to the expired medicines and vandalized the hospital. The pharmacist was also caught by the police.

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1. Pharmacist has been arrested due to... - Tilottama City News | Facebook

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Can expired adrenaline or epinephrine kill?

The original parenteral epinephrine remains sterile and detectably pure more than 2.5 years after expiration. 

Weir WB, Fred LY, Pike M, Rubakhin SS, Ludwig TJ, Shar AM, Zhu L, Frederick A, Uzoaru I, Wang L, Sweedler JV. Expired Epinephrine Maintains Chemical Concentration and Sterility. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2018 Jul-Aug;22(4):414-418. doi: 10.1080/10903127.2017.1402109. Epub 2018 Jan 26. PMID: 29373043.

While we certainly recommended replacing all expired medications, we recognize that can be cost-prohibitive for a lot of Americans. So, if a person has a severe allergic reaction and their only option is expired epinephrine, it is preferred over no medication at all.

Epinephrine solutions that are within 24 months of their expiration date typically have at least 90 percent of the label dose; solutions within 50 months of their expiration date still have as much as 88 percent. In the specific case of anaphylaxis—which is a life-threatening emergency—administering expired epinephrine if that is your only choice, is better than just waiting for emergency medical services (EMS) to arrive.

How bad is it to take expired medication? (providence.org)

Hospital: Apex Hospital, Itahari, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Physical

Event: After death of a 26-year-old man, family of the deceased and locals protested and pelted stones alleging doctors that the death was due to medication overdose. However, the hospital had defended stating that the treatment had failed due to the critical condition of the patient due to liver problem. This was settled after the hospital agreed to pay Rs. 5,00,000 compensation (out of court).

News Links:

1. Death of a patient triggers protest against hospital in Itahari - myRepublica

Hospital: Karnali Province Hospital, Surkhet, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Non-violent (demonstration)

Event: After death of a 2-year-old girl, the relatives had staged a protest in ICU claiming the medication overdose as the cause of death. She was brought to the hospital after a corn was stuck in her nose.

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1. कर्णाली अस्पतालमा बालिकाको मृत्यु, आईसीयूमै आफन्तको प्रदर्शन « Imagekhabar – Online News Portal of Nepal

Hospital: Community Health Unit, Dolalghat, Kavre, Nepal

Victims: 1 AHW

Type of violence: Physical

Event: A health worker from Dolalghat Health Unit was threatened and beaten in Dulaleshwar Secondary School during COVID-19 vaccination.

News Links:

1. स्वास्थ्यकर्मी कुटपिट गर्नेलाई कारबाहीको माग | Khabarhub Khabarhub

Perpetrator(s):

1. Anil Pote
2. Manoj Shrestha (Ward member at the time of incident)

Hospital: Grande International Hospital, Tokha, Nepal

Victims: 1 Family planning supervision officer

Type of violence: Physical

Event: Covid vaccination program in Grande International Hospital had been halted when a family planning supervision officer was beaten by a group led by a local.

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1. टोखामा स्वास्थ्यकर्मीमाथि हातपात ! रोकिएको खोप कार्यक्रम कहिलेदेखी सुरु हुँदैछ ? - नुवाकोट एक्स्प्रेस

Perpetrator(s):

1. Ramkaji Thapa

Hospital: Province Hospital Jaleshwar, Mahottari, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Non-violent (padlocking)

Event: After death of a 4-year-old girl admitted in the hospital with fever, the agitated relatives padlocked the hospital claiming that the patient died following an injection of a wrong medicine. The patient was referred to Janakpur hospital and had died immediately in the hospital premises.

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1. बिरामीको मृत्यु भएको विरोधमा दुहबीमा राजमार्ग बन्द – Online Khabar

Hospital: Gandak Hospital, Birgunj, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Non-violent (Demonstration)

Event: After the death of an 18-month-old infant with diarrhea during the course of treatment in the hospital, the irate kin staged a demonstration claiming that the patient died due to injection with an infected syringe. They had claimed that the syringe was loaded around 13 hours ago with half the dose of medicine.

News Links:

1. Gandak Hospital tense in Birgunj - The Himalayan Times

Hospital: Kanti Children Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Non-violent (demonstration)

Event: After death of an 8-year-old boy who had been taken to the hospital for the treatment, the family had staged a demonstration claiming that the death was due to the wrong medicine. However, the hospital had defended saying that the death was due to the seizure attack.

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1. उपचारका क्रममा बालकको ज्यान गएपछि कान्ति बाल अस्पताल तनावग्रस्त | Ujyaalo Online

Hospital: Birta City Hospital, Birtamod, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Physical

Event: Claiming that their 2-year-old son (admitted for diarrhea) died after an injection, family members broke the windows of the hospital and also damaged the emergency room. The body of the child was taken to BPKIHS for postmortem.

News Links:

1. Birta City Hospital vandalized after an infant's mysterious death - myRepublica
2. चिकित्सकको लापरबाहीले बालकको मृत्यु भएको भन्दै अस्पताल तोडफोड – Online Khabar

Hospital: Rapti Community Hospital, Musikot, Rukum, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Physical

Event: Relatives and family members of the 27 years old deceased vandalized the hospital by pelting stones claiming the mortality was due to the wrong injection.

News Links:

1. Rapti Community Hospital vandalised after patient’s death (kathmandupost.com)

Hospital: HDCS-Chaurjhari Hospital, Rukum, Nepal

Victims: 1 technician

Type of violence: Physical

Event: After death of a 28-year-old woman admitted in the hospital with a renal problem, irate relatives vandalized the hospital claiming that the death was due to the wrong injection. They had destroyed X-ray machine, ECG machine and vandalized the laboratory. 1 technician had sustained injury and police had to open fire in the air to control the situation. 

News Links:

1. Mission Hospital vandalised - The Himalayan Times
2. अस्पताल तोडफोड- कर्णाली - कान्तिपुर समाचार (ekantipur.com)

Hospital: Universal College of Medical Sciences, Bhairahawa, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Physical

Event: After death of a 22-year-old student (BDS final year in UCMS itself; 13th batch) undergoing treatment at the ICU following surgery for an abscess, other students of the college resorted to demonstration accusing negligence on the part of hospital and vandalized the hospital. The students had gathered on the hospital premises and started chanting slogans stating that he died because he was administered wrong medicine.

News Links:

1. उपचारको क्रममा विद्यार्थीको मृत्यु भएपछि अस्पताल तोडफोड :: भगवती पाण्डे :: Setopati
2. Students vandalise Universal Medical College after death of fellow student (kathmandupost.com)

Perpetrator(s):

Hospital: Gaur Hospital, Rautahat, Nepal

Victims: Vaccine division employee

Type of violence: Physical

Event: On the pretext of unavailbility of IPV vaccine at the hospital, a computer assistant at Gaur Municipal Office had thrashed the vaccine division employee.

News Links:

1. Nepalmonitor

Perpetrator(s):

1. Ajay Sah

Hospital: Jyoti Medical Binod Pathology, Tulsipur, Dang

Victims: Medical administrator and Doctor

Type of violence: Non-violent (Demonstration)

Event: Kith and kin of the deceased had picketed the medical and also staged a demonstration claiming that the 40-year-old patient had died due to the negligence of the doctor. Kumal had gone to the health facility to receive treatment for abdominal pain where she was treated with Tricaine-MPS and injection pantoprazole. They claimed that her condition worsened immediately after the injection. The local authorities had detained the medical administrator and a doctor. 

News Links:

1. Tulsipur tense following patient’s death (kathmandupost.com)
2. Doctor detained after death of woman in Dang :: Setopati :: Setopati
3. मेडिकल सञ्चालकको लापरबाहीले बिरामीको मृत्यु, तुलसीपुरमा तनाव | अन्नपूर्ण पोस्ट् (annapurnapost.com)

Hospital: Kathmandu Medical College and Teaching Hospital, Sinamangal, Kathmandu, Nepal

Victims: None

Type of violence: Picketing and Protest

Event: The hospital had prescribed a drug named "Flexon" (combination of ibuprofen and paracetamol) and discharged a 9-year-old girl with fracture of the leg. The girl was brought back to the hospital with side-effects of the medication. The family and relatives of the dead one picketed the hospital and protested accusing wrong medicine, however, the hospital claimed that the hospital failed to save the child as the family did not bring her immediately after she showed side-effects. This was settled (out of court) with Rs. 5,00,000 compensation.

News Links:

1. KMC compensates after patient dies of wrong treatment

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

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