NEW DELHI: India is witnessing a series of nationwide protests as
outraged citizens remonstrate against the brutal gang-rape of a
23-year-old woman who battles for her life at a Delhi hospital.
Doctors at the Safdarjung Hospital told IANS that the victim was stable but there was a danger of infection spreading in her body in the next few days.
"Her WBC (white blood cell) count is 1,500 which is low and this means that she is less immune to infections... These are early signs of sepsis," B.D. Athani, medical superintendent of Safdarjung Hospital, told reporters here.
"The next three to four days are very crucial," he added.
Sepsis is a potentially deadly medical condition characterised by a whole-body inflammatory state caused by severe infection. The normal WBC count is between 4,000 to 11,000 cells per cubic millimetre.
"To fight the infection, we are administering antibiotics to the patient. We are also maintaining the highest levels of hygiene in her ward. I request members of the public to try and not visit the victim's ward, so that its level of hygiene is maintained," said Athani.
The doctors further said that the woman's blood platelet count had gone up on its own from 41,000 earlier to 61,000. The normal platelet count in a healthy individual is between 150,000 and 450,000.
The woman, who had been on a ventilator since Sunday night, is now able to breathe "comfortably" without it for several hours.
HC raps Delhi police
Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court Friday said it is not "convinced" with the status report filed by the Delhi Police which did not mention the details of the police officials patrolling the area where a 23-year-old woman was gang-raped in a moving bus.
A division bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, after going through the report, said: "We, in the earlier order, directed the Commissioner of Police to file a report giving details of police officials patrolling in the area and the action taken by police in this aspect."
Call for justice grows for rape victim
The rage spread, rapidly and steadily, through India's national capital as students, activists and just concerned citizens gathered at various places in the city to protest the torture and gang-rape of the woman.
Rarely, if ever, have so many people taken to the streets in so many different places for a single cause. It was an unstoppable momentum.
Demanding justice and fast track courts, many people have rallied in protest in the capital in the five days since the incident Sunday night, when the physiotherapist intern was brutally assaulted and her male friend beaten in a moving bus. Both were stripped and dumped by the roadside near the domestic airport after the nearly 40-minute ordeal.
The residence of Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit and the police headquarters have all witnessed the spontaneous outpouring of anger.
Did not have courage to meet gangrape victim: Dikshit
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit admitted that she did not have the courage to meet the victim of a brutal gangrape in hospital.
Dikshit said the rape of a 23-year-old woman by six men five days ago "has touched the pinnacle of cruelty and insensitivity both by police and society". Her comments come as widespread protests have broken out in the capital and in other places over the gang rape.
"I frankly did not have the courage to see her, I only met her parents and doctors. It would not have been right to break down in front of her parents. The incident has touched the pinnacle of cruelty and insensitivity both by police and society," Dikshit told NDTV news channel.
"This case is the most painful thing I have seen happening as chief minister or a citizen."
The savage rape and torture occurred on Sunday night, when the woman and her male friend boarded a private bus in south Delhi after watching a movie.
The woman was brutally and repeatedly assaulted by six men. Her male friend, who tried to save her, was also beaten up by the rapists.
Both the girl and her friend were stripped and dumped by the roadside near the domestic airport, after the nearly 40-minute ordeal in a moving bus, that passed unchallenged through five different police check points while the ghastly act was underway. (Agencies)
Doctors at the Safdarjung Hospital told IANS that the victim was stable but there was a danger of infection spreading in her body in the next few days.
"Her WBC (white blood cell) count is 1,500 which is low and this means that she is less immune to infections... These are early signs of sepsis," B.D. Athani, medical superintendent of Safdarjung Hospital, told reporters here.
"The next three to four days are very crucial," he added.
Sepsis is a potentially deadly medical condition characterised by a whole-body inflammatory state caused by severe infection. The normal WBC count is between 4,000 to 11,000 cells per cubic millimetre.
"To fight the infection, we are administering antibiotics to the patient. We are also maintaining the highest levels of hygiene in her ward. I request members of the public to try and not visit the victim's ward, so that its level of hygiene is maintained," said Athani.
The doctors further said that the woman's blood platelet count had gone up on its own from 41,000 earlier to 61,000. The normal platelet count in a healthy individual is between 150,000 and 450,000.
The woman, who had been on a ventilator since Sunday night, is now able to breathe "comfortably" without it for several hours.
HC raps Delhi police
Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court Friday said it is not "convinced" with the status report filed by the Delhi Police which did not mention the details of the police officials patrolling the area where a 23-year-old woman was gang-raped in a moving bus.
A division bench of Chief Justice D Murugesan and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw, after going through the report, said: "We, in the earlier order, directed the Commissioner of Police to file a report giving details of police officials patrolling in the area and the action taken by police in this aspect."
Call for justice grows for rape victim
The rage spread, rapidly and steadily, through India's national capital as students, activists and just concerned citizens gathered at various places in the city to protest the torture and gang-rape of the woman.
Rarely, if ever, have so many people taken to the streets in so many different places for a single cause. It was an unstoppable momentum.
Demanding justice and fast track courts, many people have rallied in protest in the capital in the five days since the incident Sunday night, when the physiotherapist intern was brutally assaulted and her male friend beaten in a moving bus. Both were stripped and dumped by the roadside near the domestic airport after the nearly 40-minute ordeal.
The residence of Delhi Chief Minister Shiela Dikshit and the police headquarters have all witnessed the spontaneous outpouring of anger.
Did not have courage to meet gangrape victim: Dikshit
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit admitted that she did not have the courage to meet the victim of a brutal gangrape in hospital.
Dikshit said the rape of a 23-year-old woman by six men five days ago "has touched the pinnacle of cruelty and insensitivity both by police and society". Her comments come as widespread protests have broken out in the capital and in other places over the gang rape.
"I frankly did not have the courage to see her, I only met her parents and doctors. It would not have been right to break down in front of her parents. The incident has touched the pinnacle of cruelty and insensitivity both by police and society," Dikshit told NDTV news channel.
"This case is the most painful thing I have seen happening as chief minister or a citizen."
The savage rape and torture occurred on Sunday night, when the woman and her male friend boarded a private bus in south Delhi after watching a movie.
The woman was brutally and repeatedly assaulted by six men. Her male friend, who tried to save her, was also beaten up by the rapists.
Both the girl and her friend were stripped and dumped by the roadside near the domestic airport, after the nearly 40-minute ordeal in a moving bus, that passed unchallenged through five different police check points while the ghastly act was underway. (Agencies)
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