Saturday, July 14, 2012

Sweeper gives patient stitches, ward boy handles injections




In a hospital in one of Uttar Pradesh's most backward areas, a man in a green shirt gives a young child stitches on his leg. The "doctor" is a sweeper at this government hospital. A ward boy - meant to perform largely janitorial functions - gives another patient a tetanus shot. A trained nurse should be doing this.

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