Amputated leg placed as a pillow: NHRC notices to UP Govt, Health Ministry
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New Delhi: The National Human Rights Commission, NHRC has issued a notice to the Government of Uttar Pradesh through its Chief Secretary after taking suo motu cognizance of a media report about a patient amputated leg placed as a pillow at Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College in Jhansi.
The Chief Secretary has been given four weeks to submit a detailed report in the matter. Besides this, the Secretary, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has been asked to submit a report whether any instructions/guidelines on the subject have been issued to the doctors/hospitals along with status of mechanism to monitor their implementation, across the country.
While issuing the notices, the Commission has observed that the incident demands not only fair investigation and action against the guilty public servants but also issuance of necessary directions/guidelines to all the hospitals regarding strict compliance of the standard norms for disposal of the Bio Medical Waste and amputated organs so that such incidents do not recur in future.
The commission has further observed that the contents of the media reports, if true, amount to unethical and negligent act done by the doctors/nurses which is not only in violation of the medical norms but also amounts to violation of right to dignity of the patient who was already undergoing trauma, due to amputation of his leg.
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