Accountability for Alesha’s death
The report confirmed that had she received treatment sooner, Alesha could have survived

Late trasngender Alesha. PHOTO: FACEBOOK
The report confirmed that had she received treatment sooner, Alesha could have survived. She wasn’t treated as an emergency patient and a recommendation to initiate criminal cases against the medical director, hospital director and professors of surgical and orthopaedic wards has been made. As LRH is subject to the 2015 Medical Teaching Institutions Reforms law, the government is unable to take direct action against those responsible. However, that does not mean that the hospital has blanket impunity to do as it pleases. The BoG must take action against the concerned individuals as recommended by the inquiry report. According to universal oaths, hospital staff must treat all patients regardless of their gender and socio-economic backgrounds. It is important now to set the right precedent against bigoted and incompetent behaviour so that other health establishments fine-tune their protocols in case they face a similar situation.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 23rd, 2016.
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