{"id":56083,"date":"2018-03-11T21:59:49","date_gmt":"2018-03-11T16:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=56083"},"modified":"2022-11-26T13:53:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T08:53:38","slug":"imam-e-kaaba-leads-maghrib-isha-prayers-at-shah-faisal-masjid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=56083","title":{"rendered":"Indian doctors suspended after severed leg used as pillow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>New Delhi, March 11 (TNS):<\/strong> Indian authorities have suspended two doctors and launched an investigation after a patient\u2019s severed leg was used as a pillow to prop up his head, a hospital official said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Administrators at the government-run hospital in Uttar Pradesh state vowed \u201cstrict action\u201d after images emerged showing the patient on a stretcher with the amputated limb being used as a headrest. We have set up a four-member committee to find out who put the severed leg under the patient\u2019s head,\u201d said Sadhna Kaushik, principal of the Maharani Laxmibai Medical College and Hospital in Jhansi, said.<\/p>\n<p>Two doctors have been suspended pending investigation, she added. The man, identified as 28-year-old Ghanshyam, was seriously injured in a bus accident. The relatives told the local news network that hospital staff ignored their requests that Ghanshyam, who goes by one name, be given a pillow.<br \/>buy nolvadex online <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreezeclinic.com\/wp-content\/themes\/twentytwentytwo\/assets\/fonts\/inter\/new\/nolvadex.html\">nolvadex<\/a> no prescription<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>When we reached the hospital, we saw his leg being used as a headrest,\u201d Janaki Prasad, a relative said. I repeatedly asked the doctors to intervene but they refused,\u201d Prasad added, saying Ghanshyam\u2019s relatives eventually bought a pillow from a local market. Kaushik said the patient was given \u201cimmediate\u201d medical attention and one of his relatives placed the leg under his head, the Press Trust of India reported. The doctor looked for something to raise his head. The patient\u2019s attendant used the leg,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s state-run hospitals are often ill-equipped, severely underfunded and stretched to breaking point. Just a handful of specialists are available to treat millions. Uttar Pradesh, which is home to 200 million people, is one of India\u2019s poorest states, and long waits are common for even minor treatments. Medical negligence is not uncommon either. Last year, dozens of children died in a single week at a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh that suffered oxygen shortages.<br \/>buy ivermectin online <a href=\"https:\/\/thefreezeclinic.com\/wp-content\/themes\/twentytwentytwo\/assets\/fonts\/inter\/new\/ivermectin.html\">ivermectin<\/a> no prescription<br \/>\n<br \/> And an unlicensed doctor was arrested last month for allegedly infecting at least 46 people with HIV by re-using a syringe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, March 11 (TNS): Indian authorities have suspended two doctors and launched an investigation after a patient\u2019s severed leg was used as a pillow to prop up his head, a hospital official said Sunday. Administrators at the government-run hospital in Uttar Pradesh state vowed \u201cstrict action\u201d after images emerged showing the patient on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-delhi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56083"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106734,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56083\/revisions\/106734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}