A charge against, a local doctor and a nurse was dismissed of the Provisional Court on November 21, when an endorsement was made by [Judge 'Sun, who after heating the tease, emphasized the importance of the' care which hospitals should extend towards patients on, their arrival.
dock were a doctor of the Red Cross Hospital on Thibet Road and nurse of the SMC. Isolation Hospital, "The charge against them 4s, "for that they being on duty on October 6, did. fail to take" the necessary care in their occupation thereby causing the death of one Hwa Ran, aged six!
The case arose out of an inquest fon the deceased, @ slave giz}, who had been suddenly taken ill, and seemed to bein serious state, ' The Ein it was alleged, was taken Red Cross Hospital by her moste where an employee directed her the Isolation Hospital. On he amvival there, the muse, after a casual examination with another nurse, sent the infant to St, Luke's Hospital as no doctor was present, The iti died on the way.
The doctor, in answer to the judge, said that he, was 4 registered Physician but had not Yet received his certificate og it was still detain ed in the Government. Registration Bureau, He stated that he did not even know that the child had been brought to the hospital He admilied that it was not refuse admittance "to
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