2-year MBBS student who consumed toilet cleaner dies during treatment, family alleges ragging
Doctors dead
Kanpur: In a shocking incident, a 23-year-old second-year MBBS student at the Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Memorial (GSVM) Medical College in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur allegedly consumed toilet cleaner and died during treatment at the Lala Lajpat Rai hospital on Wednesday.
In light of the circumstances, the cause of the death is unclear and could only be determined after the release of the post-mortem reports.
On the other hand, in their grief over their daughter's death, the family has claimed that ragging may have prompted her to take such drastic measures. It came to the fore, that the student had earlier informed his father about getting ragged at the campus nearly seven months ago.
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According to the father, a sub-inspector in the state police department claimed, "About seven months ago, she told me that some seniors in the college had cut her long hair. In fact, two days before she was admitted to Lala Lajpat Rai hospital, she had told me that the college students used to make fun of her for some disability she had since birth.”
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