Angel of Death, Human or Guinea Pigs!

Whenever I think about this man, feeling is always same, awful and sickening. He was known as “Angel of Death”, a doctor who himself was sick and a devil in disguise.  Dr. Josef Mengele is the name, he was a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. Writing about him and his gruesome acts itself is strenuous.

Josef Mengele and His Ghastly Acts

Mengele took turns with the other SS physicians at Auschwitz in meeting incoming prisoners at the camp, where it was determined who would be retained for work and who would be sent to the gas chambers immediately. In one instance, he drew a line on the wall of the children's block, about 5 feet from the floor, and children whose heads could not reach the line were sent to the gas chambers. When it was reported that one block was infested with lice, Mengele ordered the 750 women that lived inside the dormitories to be gassed.

Mengele used Auschwitz as an opportunity to continue his research on heredity, using inmates for human experimentation. He was particularly interested in identical twins; they would be selected and placed in special barracks.

Mengele's experiments also included attempts to change eye colour by injecting chemicals into children's eyes, various amputations of limbs, and other surgeries. Rena Gelissen's account of her time in Auschwitz details certain experiments performed on female prisoners around October 1943. Mengele would experiment on the chosen girls, performing sterilization and shock treatments. Most of the victims died, because of either the experiments or later infections.

Once Mengele's assistant rounded up 14 pairs of Roma twins during the night. Mengele placed them on his polished marble dissection table and put them to sleep. He then injected chloroform into their hearts, killing them instantly. Mengele then began dissecting and meticulously noting each piece of the twins' bodies.

In my own Frontier

Nothing is changed with the time, only things are not that bad but things still happening around the world. In modern days, the doctors lost their all ethics and ready to bend their way for any purpose for big money. Most of them are not for the patients but guided by the big pharmaceutical companies and diagnostic centers and minting money from both. Following pieces are picked from some news articles and it happened not at Auschwitz but very much in India, the largest democratic country of the world.

In an outrageous act bound to dismay the medical ethics community, as many as 233 mentally ill patients in Indore were subjected to clinical trials to check the efficacy of various drugs, including 42 patients for Dapoxetine. The trials were conducted at private clinics by doctors of the mental hospital attached to the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College, Indore, between January 2008 and October 2010.  The question was raised in July this year but the reply given then was incomplete. The chief minister of Madhya Pradesh detailed reply came during the assembly's winter session that ended on December 3. Significantly, the doctors involved had taken the approval for the trials from independent ethics committees attached to private hospitals both within and outside the state, thus bypassing the Mahatma Gandhi Medical College's own institutional ethics committee.

The names of five mental hospital doctors involved in the trials - Ramgulam Rajdan, V S Pal, Ujwal Sardesai, Abhay Paliwal and Pali Rastogi. It also came to light that the clinics where the trials were conducted did not have the mandatory registration certificate from the district chief medical and health officer.

However, two doctors claimed they had done no wrong. "We did the trial in private clinics, so we took the approval from independent ethics committees," said Dr V S Pal. Asked why the MG Medical College's own institutional ethics committee was bypassed, he refused comment. Dr Abhay Paliwal, another doctor named, said, "We are allowed to conduct clinical trials at private clinics. We have followed all DCGI and ICMR norms." According to him, it was not necessary to go to the medical college's ethics committee as the trials were conducted at private clinics.

!!!The doctors in white coat, not always a saviour but an angel of death. !!!