Anita Sharma Bhusal, a nurse, was roughed up by Bir Bhadur Chand, a retired Deputy Superintendent of Police of Armed Police Force (AFP), after his daughter died during treatment Thursday night. [break]
Chand´s13-year-old daughter Barsha, a patient of blood cancer, was admitted at the hospital Wednesday evening and died in the course of treatment, Krishna Sagar Poudel, a pediatric doctor, said.
Barsha had been receiving treatment at the hospital for the past two years. Doctors say that her health was improving lately.
“She was suffering from pneumonia not cancer when she was brought to the hospital first time. We had referred her to other hospitals with Intensive Care Unit (ICU) facilities, but the patient´s father refused to take her to those hospitals,” Poudel said.
Meanwhile, Anita has said that Chand assaulted her when she did not give the medicine suggested by him to his daughter.
“There was only minor dispute when they overlooked my complaint of over dose of medicine,” Chand said by telephone and denied having attacked a hospital staff. The hospital, however, said that Chand slapped Bhusal on her cheek causing injury to her lips. The hospital authority has also accused Chand of vandalizing some equipment.
The health workers said that they would not resume their duties until the guilty is punished. It was the second incidence in just 10 days that a staffer at the hopistal was attacked by the relatives of patients.
Dr Poudel himself was assaulted nine days ago by the relatives of MonikaTimilsina, a patient of blood cancer, accusing carelessness in treatment.
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