Azhar Lal v. B. G. Flores, et al.
IF PETITiONER WAS AN INSULIN DEPENDANT DIABETIC
AND THE PRISON DOCTOR HAD ORDERED PETITIONERS EVENING
DIABETES TREATMENT AS: THAT HE MONITOR HIS BLOOD
GLUCOSE LEVELS AND IF THESE LEVELS WERE OVER A
150 M /DL., THEN HE BE PROVIDED INSULIN ACCORDINGLY
BUT
THE PRISON NURSES DELIBERATLY FAILED TO PROVIDE THIS
TREATMENT ON 3O TO 4O DIFFERENT OCEABSIONS OYER A 2 TO 3
MONTH SPAN IN WHICH TIME PETITIONERS DIABETES- HAD
WORSENED DVE TO THEIR ACTIONS IN WHICH HE REQUIRED
A PERMINENT AND ADDITIONAL INSULIN ALOUG WITH NERYE
DAMAGE TO HIS PEET; AMOUNT TO DELIBERATE INDIFFERNCE
TO A SERIOUS MEDICAL NEED ?
Whether the prison doctor's deliberate failure to provide insulin treatment for a diabetic inmate's serious medical need amounts to cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment