Bernama – Sat, Dec 24, 2011
NEW DELHI, Dec 24 (Bernama) -- A pneumonia patient is
alleged to have bled
to death after rats nibbled off his penis in a
government-run hospital in
Kolkata, reported local media.
The horrific incident happened at the SSKM Hospital on
Friday where Arun
Sandhukh, 53, was seeking treatment for pneumonia,
reported the Asian Age
newspaper.
The hospital authorities admitted the prevalent of rat
menace in the wards
but did not comment further.
"No nurse was found at the scene and he was writhing in
pain. His penis had
been nibbled by rats," the victim''s relative only
known as Bishwanath told the
media.
Only family members who came to visit Arun discovered
him dead in a pool of
blood, said the news report.
-- MORE
RAT-PENIS (LAST) DELHI
Medical mishaps in poorly-equipped and overcrowded
hospitals in Kolkata,
West Bengal''s capital, hogged media attention in
recent weeks.
Last Saturday, an inebriated hospital cleaner, at the
Calcutta Medical
College, was reported to have pulled off the oxygen
mask of a three-week old
baby that led to her death.
In another appalling tragedy in a private hospital in
Kolkata, over 90
people, mostly patients suffocated to death, after fire
swept through the
building in the early hours of Dec 9.
-- BERNAMA
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So GROUSE, scary! Can't imagine this can happen!
Goshhhhhh! 