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Hospital staff at a mass sterilization camp in West Bengal dumped more than 100 women in a field to recover after their painful operations.
Four doctors at the government-run Manikchak Rural Hospital in West Bengal are under investigation after conducting as many as 106 sterilization operations on Wednesday, the Times of India reports. Medical officials say that each of these patients should have been kept under close watch for at least three hours. Instead, doctors ordered them to be placed in an open, dirty field adjacent to the hospital, exposed to infection and to the eyes of onlookers.
Local officials admit that the hospital, located 224 miles north of Kolkata, was not properly equipped to handle the large influx of patients. The hospital has 60 beds — 30 each for men and women. No more than 25 sterilizations are allowed per day, NDTV reports. Manikchak residents said that the hospital conducts sterilization drives regularly, but would put up tents for the patients in the past.
Wednesday’s sterilization camp began at 10 a.m. and lasted until 7:30 p.m. Neither...
Four doctors at the government-run Manikchak Rural Hospital in West Bengal are under investigation after conducting as many as 106 sterilization operations on Wednesday, the Times of India reports. Medical officials say that each of these patients should have been kept under close watch for at least three hours. Instead, doctors ordered them to be placed in an open, dirty field adjacent to the hospital, exposed to infection and to the eyes of onlookers.
Local officials admit that the hospital, located 224 miles north of Kolkata, was not properly equipped to handle the large influx of patients. The hospital has 60 beds — 30 each for men and women. No more than 25 sterilizations are allowed per day, NDTV reports. Manikchak residents said that the hospital conducts sterilization drives regularly, but would put up tents for the patients in the past.
Wednesday’s sterilization camp began at 10 a.m. and lasted until 7:30 p.m. Neither...