New Delhi: With the health condition of the brutally gang-raped 23-year-old girl continuing to be critical, doctors at the Safdarjung Hospital in Delhi performed a second surgery on Wednesday even as they joined India to pray for her recovery.
The biggest problem being faced by doctors is said to be septicaemia - a systemic infection, usually caused by bacteria of various types contaminating a person’s blood. In the girl’s case, Septicemia may have been caused due to the cuts she was inflicted with becoming infected.
Treating Septicemia at the earliest is critical as infected blood can contaminate other organs or tissues of the body, creating life-threatening infections.
Give her critical condition – she is on full ventilator support – doctors at the hospital sought the advice of specialists from AIIMS trauma centre before deciding to go ahead with the operation.
The next 24 hours are critical, if she pulls through, her chances of survival will improve. India prays.
Doctors treating the girl say that they have never seen such brutality on a sex crime victim. They say she is extreme pain and has been put on a steady dose of Morphine hoping that it will provide some succour.
A team of doctors are keeping a close watch on her condition as her blood pressure and platelet levels remain unstable.
The brutal gang-rape and torture of a 23-year-old girl has left people across the country shocked. Such incidences have happened earlier too but it has to end one day and it should happen now, they demand.
The massive outrage has spread across cities even as the chorus for justice grows. Parliamentarians across the political divide are also demanding that the government do everything possible to make the country – especially Delhi, given its dubious distinction as India’s rape capital - safe for women.
The brutal rape and torture occurred Sunday night when the girl and a male friend boarded a private bus with tinted glasses. It moved along the bustling south Delhi areas of Munirka, Vasant Vihar and Mahipalpur as the men raped and tortured the girl and beat her friend, using iron rods and more. The couple was stripped, robbed and thrown off the bus near Mahipalpur.
The male friend was also taken to Safdarjung but discharged after treatment.
The bus driver Ram Singh was yesterday remanded in police custody for five days in by a Delhi court to allow his custodial interrogation.
Three arrested culprits, Ram Singh's brother Mukesh, Vinay Sharma, an assistant gym instructor, and Pawan Gupta, a fruit seller, were produced in court today.
They have been sent to four day police custody. One of the guilty, Vinay Sharma, told the court, “Hang me, I am guilty.”
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