Two of Delhi’s well-known
government-run hospitals, LNJP and GB Pant, have decided to not perform
surgeries on patients above 80 kg. The reason: their operation tables are too
old and rickety.
"You are
overweight" doctors tell patients in Delhi, India. This has to be one of the weirdest excuses
for a hospital not admitting a patient.
The bizarre saga began when
operating doctors at the LNJP hospital found that the table was shaking
ominously under one of their patient’s weight. Moments later, the table broke
and the patient, who was under anaesthesia, fell on the floor. The surgery was
somehow completed and a life saved, but the episode left the Maulana Azad
Medical College (MAMC) and its associated LNJP and GB Pant hospital doctors
shaken and perplexed.
But so many Indians have kicked
against their excuse asking for it to be fixed, knowing 13 per cent of India’s
1.2 billion population could be suffering from obesity.
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