New Delhi: In a path-breaking judgement, the Supreme Court on Monday allowed "passive euthanasia" of withdrawing life support to patients in permanently vegetative state(PVS) but rejected outright active euthanasia of ending life through administration of lethal substances. Refusing mercy killing of Aruna Shanbaug, lying in a vegetative state for 37 years in a Mumbai hospital, a two-judge bench of justices Markandeya Katju and Gyan Sudha Mishra, laid a set of...
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New Delhi: "Aruna (Ramchandra Shanbaug) is the bond that unites us" and "she means a lot to KEM Hospital" whose staff are "determined to take care of her till her last breath by natural process." These statements made by the Mumbai's KEM Hospital Dean Sanjay Oak weighed heavily on the Supreme Court which rejected the plea made on behalf of Aruna, who has been lying in a vegetative state for...
07:25 PM, Mar 07, 2011
Pinki Virani's lawyer Shubhangi Tulli said the Supreme Court praised Pinki for putting Aruna Shanbaug's case rightly. ...
12:15 PM, Mar 07, 2011
A retired employee of KEM Hospital's ward number four, Tidi Makwana has served Aruna Shanbaug for 25 years. ...
11:56 AM, Mar 07, 2011
The Supreme Court, while rejecting Aruna Shanbaug's euthanasia plea praised KEM hospital for taking care of her. ...
11:38 AM, Mar 07, 2011
Mumbai: The Supreme Court is expected to deliver its verdict in Nurse Aruna Shanbaug's mercy killing petition on Monday. She has been living in a vegetative state for the last 30 years after a brutal sexual assault. Tidi Makhwana, a former employee of KEM Hospital, said, "I stayed with her for many years. She should not die as she is not creating any problems for anyone." For 25 years, 58-year-old...
07:27 AM, Mar 07, 2011
New Delhi: The petition of Mumbai nurse Aruna Shanbaug, who is in a coma for the past 36 years in a Mumbai hospital, seeking permission to die, will come up for hearing in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. The petition, filed by activist-journalist Pinki Virani, seeks the apex court's intervention to direct the King's Edward Memorial Hospital to stop feeding Aruna and allow her to die. The court had issued...
01:37 PM, Mar 02, 2011
Doctors at Mumbai's KEM Hospital are scrubbing down hospital walls to set an example to inconsiderate visitors. ...
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Aruna Shanbaug was gagged and raped in 1973 at her workplace. ...
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