Hospital Updates

It has been rather slow at the hospital since the beginning of the week, but has started to pick up again. The lag in patients was a from the "incident" as we call it at Manmohan. I reported about this about a week ago: when the young woman died from complications of an ovarian cyst surgery. The day after the surgery I showed up at the hospital to find it teeming with riot police. I was confused about this but found out later that the family of the girl was enraged (of course) and said that her death was the fault of the attending surgeons. So, they threatened to burn down the hospital, throw rocks at it, and kill the doctors involved in the case. This was the reason for the police presence. The family also threatened to get various violent gangs involved, including the YCL. Thank goodness, the YCL never showed up to the hospital. The family also demanded a HUGE sum of money, I cannot report the exact amount but it's in the many hundreds of thousands of rupees. The hospital bargained this sum down a little, but not much and paid the family. The doctor I work with frequently said he thought this was a major mistake of the hospital and that they should not have paid the family any money.
Because of all this, which a bit of was leaked to the press, the flow of patients has been down quite a bit. When sitting with Dr. Om to take patients we normally would have 15 to 20 in a few hours. Recently it has been more like 3. But, I'm glad to say that I think the "incident" has blown over as the patients are coming for treatment more than they were at the beginning of the week.