SMS Medical College in Jaipur Asks Patients' Religion Before Treatment, Authorities Claim to Create Database of Population Specific Diseases

Jaipur, July 26:  Patients going for treatment in SMS Medical College in Jaipur and all hospitals attached to it will need to disclose their religion because the authorities say that they are creating a database of population-specific diseases. Rajasthan Shocker: Doctor Thrashes Patient at Sawai Man Singh Medical College; Watch Video.

According to a Times of India report, the hospital Superintendent says that the authorities are collecting the data because they want to research diseases most prevalent among beef eaters and also among the vegetation eaters. The person, however, failed to explain how religion could be used as an indicator of food habits.

The other authorities in the hospital cite that it is just a 'protocol' that patients need to mention their religion at the time of registering. SMS Hospital, named after Maharaja Sawai Man Singh of Jaipur has already introduced forms mentioning a tab called religion

A huge chunk of a ceiling fell from a hospital under SMS medical hospital the other day in the cardiac ICU ward. There have been numerous such cases in the past as well, in one case the AC in the ICU had stopped working when a road accident patient was brought inside.

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