Agencies Posted online: Fri Dec 28 2012, 15:01 hrs
New Delhi : The 'Shahenshah' of Bollywood Amitabh Bachchan is reportedly angry with the media for not respecting the privacy of the Delhi gangrape victim while being shifted to another location.
The 70-year-old actor, who was rushed to hospital a couple of years ago, recalled the difficulty he and his family faced because of the media frenzy, which delayed his treatment by 20 minutes.
“Lot of debate and discussion and comments on the media coverage of patient (Delhi gangrape) being shifted in ambulance to another location … patient privacy is an important element in the Constitutional Journals of Medical Ethics,” he said.
“Couple of years ago when I was in an emergency and taken to hospital, media had blocked the ambulance door to such an extent that it took my family and the doctors 20 minutes to open the door to get me out, while I suffered pain inside, impatient to get immediate medical attention,” he added.
In the Delhi gangraped girl's case it took a secret operation to transfer her from Safdarjung hospital to Palam air force station, before she was flown to Singapore on Wednesday night - hospital authorities and the police jointly made elaborate preparations all day, culminating in a 15-minute sequence that saw two apparently hoax ambulances being set up, before the Medanta ambulance with the patient left around 10.30 pm.
An elaborate hoax with burqa-clad people coming in and out of hospital too was enacted before the girl could be moved out of hospital.
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Singapore doctors let the cat out, Delhi gangrape victim had suffered cardiac arrest before arrival
PTI | Singapore, December 28, 2012 | 11:33
The 23-year-old victim is struggling for her life at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.
The 23-year-old Delhi gangrape victim has significant brain injury, infection in lungs and abdomen and she is currently struggling against all odds at Mount Elizabeth Hospital where her condition continues to be "extremely critical", the hospital said on Friday.
"Our medical team's investigations upon her arrival at the hospital yesterday showed that in addition to her prior cardiac arrest, she also had infection of her lungs and abdomen, as well as significant brain injury," said Dr Kelvin Loh, Chief Executive Officer, Mount Elizabeth Hospital.
In a statement, Dr Loh said, "The patient is currently struggling against the odds, and fighting for her life."
Briefing reporters here on girl's condition, Loh said, "As at 28 December, 11 am (8:30 IST) the patient continues to remain in an extremely critical condition."
The girl, who was gangraped and brutally assaulted in a moving bus on December 16, was brought here in an air ambulance on Thursday and admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.
She had undergone three surgeries at the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi, where she remained on ventilator support during most part of the treatment. Doctors removed major part of her intestines which had become gangrenous.
"A multi-disciplinary team of specialists has been working tirelessly to treat her since her arrival, and is doing everything possible to stabilise her condition over the next few days," Dr Loh said.
"The High Commission of India has been fully supportive in helping the hospital and her family, and ensuring that the best care is made available," he added.
The security was tightened at the hospital, favoured by well-heeled patients, with each visitor screened before being allowed into the ICU.
In Delhi, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi stressed that no time should be lost in bringing the perpetrators of such barbarous act to justice.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh assured that those found guilty of lapses in the aftermath of the incident will not be spared.
"We are committed to bringing the guilty to justice as soon as possible," Singh said, adding that best possible medical care was being provided to the victim.
The victim's father, who flew in with her, said he was reassured that the best is being done for his daughter.
The girl's family members do not speak English and rely on interpreters to communicate with hospital staff, the Strait Times newspaper reported.
The High Commission of India has assigned a liaison officer with the family.
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28 December 2012 Last updated at 05:53 GMT
Delhi rape victim 'fighting for life' in Singapore
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A female student gang-raped on a bus in India's capital Delhi is "fighting for her life" at a Singapore hospital, doctors say.
The 23-year-old victim - who remains on life support - has suffered "significant brain injury".
She arrived in Singapore on Thursday after undergoing three operations in a Delhi hospital.
The attack earlier this month triggered violent public protests that left one police officer dead.
Six men have been arrested and two police officers have been suspended following the 16 December attack.
The victim, who may require an organ transplant, has been admitted to Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital.
"The patient is currently struggling against the odds, and fighting for her life," Kelvin Loh, chief executive officer of Mount Elizabeth Hospital, said in a statement.
"Our medical team's investigations upon her arrival at the hospital yesterday showed that in addition to her prior cardiac arrest, she also had infection of her lungs and abdomen, as well as significant brain injury."
Dr Loh said that multi-disciplinary team of specialists has been "working tirelessly to treat her since her arrival, and is doing everything possible to stabilise her condition over the next few days".
The woman's family has accompanied her to Singapore.
Public anger
Protests against the incident left one police officer dead in Delhi
India's Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said in a statement said the government had decided to send the victim overseas on the recommendation of her doctors.
"Despite the best efforts of our doctors, the victim continues to be critical and her fluctuating health remains a big cause of concern to all of us," he said.
The government has tried to halt rising public anger by announcing a series of measures intended to make Delhi safer for women.
These include more police night patrols, checks on bus drivers and their assistants, and the banning of buses with tinted windows or curtains.
The government has also said that it will post the photos, names and addresses of convicted rapists on official websites to shame them.
It has set up two committees - one looking into speeding up trials of cases involving sexual assaults on women, and the other to examine the lapses that might have led to the incident in Delhi.
But the protesters say the government's pledge to seek life sentences for the attackers is not enough - many are calling for the death penalty.
The victim and her friend had been to see a film when they boarded the bus in the Munirka area, intending to travel to Dwarka in south-west Delhi.
Police said she was raped for nearly an hour, and both she and her companion were beaten with iron bars and thrown out of the moving bus into a Delhi street.
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