Police in Nam Can District of Ca Mau Province have detained 34 people for violating the law, causing public disorder, resisting law enforcement officers and destroying public assets.
All the 34 people arrested justified their violent acts saying they wanted to avenge the death of 16-year-old Duong Thi Thu Huyen who died at a local hospital last June.
Colonel Le Thanh Son, head of the district police department, said on Oct 26 that these people had committed crimes by venting their anger against doctors who treated Huyen at the Nam Can General Hospital.
Huyen died of a serious brain injury which the doctors failed to diagnose her case.
On June 28, Huyen was hospitalized after her neighbors found her lying unconscious on the street with bloodstains on her clothes and scratches on her body.
Nguyen Thi Phuc (Huyen’s aunt) who took care of her at the hospital said the doctors in Nam Can asked the family to take Huyen back home after examining her.
The doctors said that Huyen’s condition was normal, but she was still writhing in pain and was unable to speak so Phuc begged them to let her stay in the hospital, Phuc said.
At midnight on June 28, Huyen suddenly had difficulty breathing, Phuc took her to doctor Nguyen Huy Tu, who checked her condition and summarized her condition once again as normal saying she would be okay by morning.
Tu then went back to sleep and asked Phuc not to disturb him anymore. Unfortunately Huyen died at 4 am on June 29.
To Van Mung, deputy director of Nam Can admitted that Tu and his two nurses hadn’t performed adequate and appropriate medical checks on Huyen’s conditions and thus failed to diagnose her brain injury.
According to the Nam Can District People’s Committee, Huyen was raped by Le Minh Lo after going to a karaoke club by him and 4 others on June 27.
The provincial police have arrested Lo and will charge him for rape.
