Incident Reports

Chaos at Lifeline Hospital after the death of a patient

2018-10-03

Province 1, Jhapa, Damak

After the death of a patient during the treatment, chaos has occurred at Lifeline Hospital situated in Damak, Jhapa. Accusing that patient died due to carelessness of doctor, relatives got aggressive and chaos at hospital. On Wednesday evening, 75 years Sitadevi Shah died after which her relatives started demonstrating from Wednesday night. Dead's son Birendra said when his mother had problem in respiration instead of bringing oxygen and continue treatment they let her suffer due to which his mother died. However, hospital's medical office Dr. Raju Shah said patient died because of heart attack. 

On Thursday morning, dead's family and hospital administration had negotiation said Police Inspector, Khagendra Ekten.    

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Nonviolent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Interpersonal
Primary Form Demonstration
Primary Cause Extra-judicial response related to perceived healthcare malpractice/after death of patient
Secondary Cause Issues related to legal action and access to justice
Actor 1 - Number of people 10
Actor 1 - Affiliations Citizen/Individuals
Actor 1 - Youth unknown
Actor 2 - Number of people NA
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Health sector/health workers, doctors
Actor 2 - Youth na
National/Online Media

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