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| Singapore medics battle to save India gang-rape victim |
| 2012-12-28 |
| [Pak Daily Times] Doctors in Singapore battled Thursday to save the life of an Indian student who sustained horrific injuries in a gang-rape after she was dramatically airlifted overnight from a hospital in New Delhi. As India's prime minister vowed that the attackers of the 23-year-old would face swift justice, medics at Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital described her condition in the intensive care unit as "extremely critical". "She is being examined and the hospital is working with the Indian High Commission (embassy)," the hospital added in a brief statement. The Indian government, which is paying for the woman's treatment, approved the decision to transfer her from Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital where she had been treated since the December 16 assault on a bus in the centre of the capital. Visa arrangements were also fast-tracked to enable the victim's relatives to keep watch over her in Singapore. "The hospital and the family have requested that the privacy of the patient and the family be respected," said a statement from the high commission. According to police and prosecutors, six men took turns to rape the woman and assault her with an iron bar, leaving her with intestinal injuries, before they threw her out of a bus that they had taken for a joy-ride. While doctors in Singapore did not give details about the treatment she has received since her early morning arrival, their counterparts at Safdarjung said Mount Elizabeth had been chosen as it has a multi-organ transplant facility. BD Athani, medical superintendent at Safdarjung Hospital, told news hounds the woman had already undergone three operations in New Delhi. "With fortitude and courage she has survived the after-effects of the injuries so far but her condition continues to be critical," Athani added. The gang-rape has prompted widespread street protests in India, not only in revulsion at the savage nature of the attack but also because it tapped into simmering anger at the level of violence against women. Official figures show that 228,650 of the total 256,329 violent crimes recorded last year were against women, with the number of rapes in the capital rising 17 percent to 661 this year. Gang-rapes are reported on a daily basis, with police revealing on Thursday that a 42-year-old woman had been found overnight dumped on a road in southeast Delhi after she was gagged, sedated and then raped by three men. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Unfortunately, the MSM-Net is repor that the victim has passed away from her injuries. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-12-28 22:21 |