adminMount Elizabeth Hospital said yesterday.
“Our medical team’s investigations upon her arrival at the hospital yesterday showed that in addition to her prior cardiac arrest, she also had infection of her lungs and abdomen, as well as significant brain injury,” said Kelvin Loh, chief executive officer of the hospital. The patient is currently struggling against odds, and fighting for her life”, Loh added. He also said a multi-disciplinary team of specialists has been working tirelessly to treat her since her arrival, “and is doing everything possible to stabilise her condition over the next few days”.
“The said hospital has a state-of-art multi-organ transplant facility,” a report by AFP quoted the head of the hospital that treated the girl in New Delhi as saying, suggesting that the Singapore hospital was chosen for its modern organ transplant facility.
But the hospital hasn’t revealed if they had arranged any related operations yet. Reports said that the 23-year-old victim had been repeatedly beaten and raped by six drunken men on a moving bus in South Delhi on December 16.
The case has shocked India, triggering protests by college students who called for the death penalty for the criminals.
However, only 10 days after the girl’s case, another case took place on Wednesday night when a woman was gang-raped by three people and dumped in a southern Delhi locality.
Rapes take place frequently in the Indian capital with at least 600 cases reported so far this year. — Xinhua.
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