Incident Reports

Kanti Children's hospital tense after child's death

2019-05-01

Bagmati, Kathmandu, Kathmandu

Kanti Children's Hospital became tense after the death of 8-year-old Ankit Khatri. Khatri was taken to the hospital on Wednesday morning for treatment. 

Family of the deceased claim that the child died because of the medication given by the doctor. However, hospital claims that the child died of medical illness. 

According to Director of the hospital, Ganesh Rai, the child lost consciousness and died because of illness.

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Primary Form Demonstration
Primary Cause Extra-judicial response related to perceived healthcare malpractice/after death of patient
Actor 1 - Number of people 10
Actor 1 - Affiliations Mob (only Perpetrator)
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people n/a
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Health sector/health workers, doctors
Actor 2 - Youth na
National/Online Media

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