Police in India have
arrested a doctor accused of trying to set a patient’s body on fire after he
died during treatment for back pain and fever, police said Monday.
Salman
Shiekh’s 45-year-old patient became unconscious and died shortly after being
given painkillers at a private clinic in the southern city of Hyderabad on
Saturday, said senior Hyderabad police officer T.Sudhakar.
“Apparently
he was having back pain and fever. As soon as he was given the injections he
fell unconscious and died,” Sudhakar told AFP.
Shiekh
allegedly took the body on a motorcycle to an isolated location and doused it
with petrol. The doctor tried to set the body on fire but was stopped by alarmed
locals, Sudhakar said.
The
registered doctor, who had treated the victim on previous occasions, is in
custody pending the outcome of the police investigation. He faces initial
charges of murder and destroying evidence, Sudhakar said.
The
body has been sent for an autopsy to establish the cause of death.
The
case is the latest highlighting poor health care. Earlier this month at least
14 people in the western state of Maharashtra were left blind in one eye after
bungled cataract surgeries.
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