Off Topic- Newspapers Pick up the IITK Snakebite Case

Once again I came to know via Abi's blog that TOI and Indian Express have covered the snakebite case at IITK. Many had asked me the name of the doctor, according to TOI it was Meera Kumar. From the TOI article-

Rahul was son of Sudhir from Malda in West Bengal who was working as labourer under a contractor at Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur (IIT-K). At about 4.45 am on Sunday, Rahul had suffered the snakebite at his hutment near construction site of the environment engineering building.
His relatives rushed him to the IIT-K health centre. But the doctor-on-duty Meera Batra (as per the official duty register) allegedly refused to attend him, as he was an outsider and not entitled to medical facilities. The boy was finally rushed to the LLR Hospital only to be declared brought-dead.

A group of students is so incensed at the incident that they first held a condolence meeting and later took out a march to the health centre seeking an explanation from chief medical Officer (CMO) Dr Nirmal Kumar.

The students circulated a mail among the IIT-K fraternity highlighting the gross negligence on the part of the doctor and subsequent death of the boy.

I liked to that email here in an earlier post.