A 22-year-old youth, who was denied treatment for a stab injury by 10 hospitals in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack for the past 15 days, was finally operated upon on Tuesday night after the Orissa Human Rights Commission (OHRC) intervened.
The OHRC took the action on an appeal by the victim’s brother.
The rights panel directed city-based hospital KIMS to take up the case and the victim was operated upon on Tuesday night.
According to petitioner Pabitra Nayak, a resident of Bhubaneswar, his brother, Ranjit Nayak, was stabbed by a neighbour over a mobile theft case at 6.30 p.m. on September 8.
After assessing his health condition, the Chandrasekhar police asked his parents to admit him in hospital at 7 p.m.
It was the beginning of an ordeal.
Human rights activist Pradip Pradhan said the victim, who was bleeding, was rushed to two government hospitals, AIIMS, Bhubaneswar and Capital Hospital,…