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SHE and SAFETY
SHE and SAFETY
Before encountering the remorseful realities of 2024, let me take you back to 1973.
It was November 27, 1973, when a young and inspiring 25-year-old nurse, Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug, was on duty at Mumbai's King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital. She did not know that the day would end with her being sentenced to a coma period of 42 years. Yes, 42!!!!
In the evening, she was brutally raped by a wardboy (cleaner) of the hospital while she was changing her clothes in the basement. The case was so horrifying that the culprit strangled her with a dog chain and sodomized her, knowing that she was menstruating those days.
The asphyxiation caused her to cut off the oxygen supply to her brain, leaving her in a vegetative state for the rest of her life until her death in 2015.
Yes, the culprit was punished! But to our surprise—not for molestation or sodomy, but just seven years of imprisonment for'an attempt to murder'.....—all thanks to the inefficiency of our criminal justice system back then. Instead, Aruna was imprisoned for the rest of her life on a bed at KEM Hospital.
In 1998, journalist Pinki Virani covered a detailed story on Aruna Shanbaug, and again in 2011, she filed a PIL in the Supreme Court seeking euthanasia for Aruna.
(Euthanasia is hastening the death of a patient who is suffering from an incurable disease so that the patient may have a peaceful and painless farewell from this world instead of leading a life with tenacious pain.)
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Before encountering the remorseful realities of 2024, let me take you back to 1973.
It was November 27, 1973, when a young and inspiring 25-year-old nurse, Aruna Ramchandra Shanbaug, was on duty at Mumbai's King Edward Memorial (KEM) Hospital. She did not know that the day would end with her being sentenced to a coma period of 42 years. Yes, 42!!!!
In the evening, she was brutally raped by a wardboy (cleaner) of the hospital while she was changing her clothes in the basement. The case was so horrifying that the culprit strangled her with a dog chain and sodomized her, knowing that she was menstruating those days.
The asphyxiation caused her to cut off the oxygen supply to her brain, leaving her in a vegetative state for the rest of her life until her death in 2015.
Yes, the culprit was punished! But to our surprise—not for molestation or sodomy, but just seven years of imprisonment for'an attempt to murder'.....—all thanks to the inefficiency of our criminal justice system back then. Instead, Aruna was imprisoned for the rest of her life on a bed at KEM Hospital.
In 1998, journalist Pinki Virani covered a detailed story on Aruna Shanbaug, and again in 2011, she filed a PIL in the Supreme Court seeking euthanasia for Aruna.
(Euthanasia is hastening the death of a patient who is suffering from an incurable disease so that the patient may have a peaceful and painless farewell from this world instead of leading a life with tenacious pain.)
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