K.K. Harshina, who is claimed to have suffered health issues after an alleged botched C-Section surgery held at the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, is planning to stage a sit-in outside the Kerala Assembly on September 13.
This was decided at a meeting of an action panel supporting her on Monday. She had called off her over 100-day-old sit-in outside the medical college hospital on Saturday after the police charge-sheeted two doctors and two nursing staff, who were on duty when the surgery was performed in 2017. Now, she is demanding that she be paid ₹50 lakh as compensation for the hardships she suffered after the procedure. A surgical instrument, which was allegedly left behind in her abdomen after the surgery, was removed only in 2022.
A legislature session is scheduled to begin on September 11. The action panel functionaries said that the sit-in would be staged outside the Assembly if the government did not make an announcement about the compensation by then. Ms. Harshina had earlier held a day-long sit-in outside the Kerala Secretariat.
