Nepal

Kathmandu, November 12

Lalitpur District Court today sent five persons accused of illegal kidney transplant in Pulchowk-based Nidan Hospital to judicial custody until the final verdict.

Those who were sent to judicial custody were CEO of Pulchowk-based Nidan Hospital Bipendra Pradhan, Legal Officer Kumud Kumar Bhattarai, General Physician Rajesh Panta, Section Officer of Lalitpur District Office Ram Chandra Ale and the kidney recipient Shankar Lal Lama.

Judge Madan Bahadur Dhami ordered that they be sent to jail until the adjudication of the case, according to court officials.

Barring kidney recipient Lama, all other accused were members of the Kidney Transplant Approval Committee formed by the hospital.

Police had arrested them after a person, whose kidney was removed for illegal transplant, filed an FIR against nine persons involved in the act, a few months after the transplant on August 8.

Out of the nine accused, police have arrested five persons while remaining four, all relatives of the kidney receiver Lama, have been at large. Human organ transplantation law requires an independent approval committee that verifies if the donor is legally appropriate and medically fit to donate onekidney to the recipient or not. As per the law, the committee had given approval for Sanjeev Ghising, nephew of the kidney receiver to donate one of his kidneys.

But, on the day of the transplantation the family of the patient ‘with tacit support of the hospital authorities& produced a different person with forged documents replacing Ghising to donate kidney. The man had his photo pasted on the kidney transplantation document issued for Ghising.

Police said the man was lured by the patientfamily to donate his kidney for Rs 300,000. The hospital knowingly transplanted the kidney of wrong person to the patient, ignoring objection by one of the nurses to the illegal transplant.

Office of Lalitpur District Government Attorney had filed a case against nine persons as per the investigation report submitted by the Anti-human trafficking bureau of Nepal Police, on November 5.

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Kathmandu, November 12

The Nepali Congress has urged the government to come up with a solution to address the concerns of medical students.

Organising a press meet at the partycentral office Lalitpur today, NC Spokesperson Bishwa Prakash Sharma said, &It is saddening to see failure of the government in addressing the concerns of medical students, who have been protesting against medical colleges. NC requests the government to solve the issue and make arrangements for peaceful and stress-free education environment.&

Medical students have been protesting against exorbitant fees charged in violation of the governmentrule.

Medical students had jointly staged protest in the capital in November as medical colleges refused to refund the extra fee despite the governmentwarning. Students of Chitwan Medical College had ended their protest with the signing of an agreement with the college authorities on September 21, at Chitwan District Administration Office. The government had given a monthultimatum to refund extra charges, on September 23.

A meeting was held at Chitwan District Administration Office between college students and college administrators. The agreement stated that either the college would refund the extra fee taken from students or adjust the fee by November 4.

The government yesterday issued 15-day ultimatum to medical colleges to refund the extra fee taken from students.

&The government has only been issuing directives. The medical colleges have not refunded extra money taken from students. The government should immediately take effective initiative to solve the issue,& Sharma said.

NC, earlier in the day, had also appealed the government to form a talk team to fulfill genuine demands of Senior Orthopaedic Dr Govinda KC and save his life. &The health condition of Dr KC is deteriorating. Therefore, the government should form a talk team immediately to address his demands,& Sharma said. However, Dr KC ended his protest later, considering public sentiment of nationalism regarding encroachment of Nepali territory Kalapani by India as featured in its recently published political map.

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