The Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy

A Doctor's Memoir of a Deadly Medical Crisis

De: Kafeel Khan

Narrado por: Vaibhav Jyotsna Srivastava

A harrowing medical crisis. A doctor in the eye of the storm. His account of what really happened.

On the evening of 10 August 2017, liquid oxygen ran out at the state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College’s Nehru Hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Reportedly, over the next two days, more than 80 patients–63 children and 18 adults–lost their lives. In the intervening hours, Dr Kafeel Khan, the junior-most lecturer at the college’s paediatrics department, went to extraordinary lengths to secure oxygen cylinders, perform emergency treatment and rally the staff in order to prevent as many deaths as possible.

As the news of the tragedy grabbed national attention, Khan was called a hero for working ceaselessly to control the crisis and drawing attention to a healthcare system in dire need of repair. But a few days later, he found himself suspended and that an FIR had been filed against nine individuals, including him, for corruption and medical negligence, among other grave charges. Soon after he was summarily carted off to jail.

The Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy is Kafeel Khan’s firsthand chronicle of the events of that fateful night in August 2017 and the gut-wrenching turmoil that followed–a suspension without end, an eight-month-long incarceration and a relentless fight for justice in the face of extreme apathy and persecution.

©2021 Kafeel Khan (P)2023 Audible, Inc.

Truly a wake-up call

Thank you to Dr. Khan for the gift of sharing your experience so that none who read can ever again say "I didn't know".

Too many still have not learned to put truth and honesty first. If anyone is telling you to hide or be silent about the truth... you must consider why.

Dr. Khan has shown how an ordinary citizen can also be a modern day activist.

This is how the freedoms some/many enjoy today were hard won in the past... Some things have not changed.

Amazing

Could not put this book down. I am amazed at the evil of narcissism in the human race. Especially in the medical profession.

Repetitive

The story is more about what happened to the Dr. as if that was the tragedy. The Doctor is a bit egocentric and wants to be adored for his actions. The kids should have been transferred to a hospital that had oxygen.