Was shifting rape victim to Singapore a wise call?

December 29, 2012 04:08

As the young paramedic student lost the battle for her life at a hospital in Singapore, where she was airlifted on Wednesday night, doubts have been raised as to why she was shifted there for treatment.

"There must be a lot of considerations as to why she was moved - political, social, emotional - but medically, I think it is sad that we send people like her to other countries when there are facilities here. Shifting such a dangerously ill patient was incorrect," Samiran Nundy, a doctor at Delhi's Ganga Ram Hospital told television channel CNN-IBN.

"If she was my patient, I would not have shifted her," Dr Nundy added.

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