Compiled by JAROD LIM, DIVYA THERESA RAVI and R. ARAVINTHAN
DOCTORS who nonchalantly blamed rats in the hospital for a man’s missing left eye in Bihar, India, triggered a protest, Makkal Osai reported.
The man named Pandush was admitted to Nalanda Medical College and Hospital in Patna city after getting shot.
He died despite treatment and while his body was being prepared for an autopsy, relatives noticed that his left eye was missing.
A relative apparently noticed a blade near the deceased’s bed, but hospital workers claimed rats may have eaten the man’s eyeball.
Furious family members then began a protest in front of the hospital.
The hospital’s management then set up a four-person panel to investigate the matter.
The hospital’s administrators said they were investigating whether the man’s eye was stolen or eaten by rats, acknowledging that either scenario was an unacceptable oversight.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
