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| Jodhpur's hospital of death goes |
| Jodhpur's hospital of death goes unpunished
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| INDIA
, 9-March-2011
0:40:7 AM |
| A government hospital in Jodhpur has turned into a house of death. In the last three weeks, 16 women have died, reportedly from severe medical negligence.
Fifteen of them died after delivering babies, four of whom were stillborn. The sixteenth woman - who died on Tuesday morning - had gone through a hysterectomy operation.
In each of these cases, the patients allegedly went through excessive bleeding. Early inquiries suggest this was caused by contaminated intravenous fluid that was used during and after deliveries.
Four different inquiries - one by the hospital and the others by the state and Central government - are trying to determine the cause of the deaths at Umaid Hospital, the biggest government hospital in Western Rajasthan. Experts are testing samples of the intravenous fluid to determine if it was the sole cause or a contributing factor to the tragedy.
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But at Umaid Hospital, those multiple deaths have prompted no action. The emergency ward - by definition meant to be open 24 hours - operates only between 3 pm and 9 am. And at 3 pm on Tuesday, at the emergency ward, we find one resident doctor on duty. None of the three senior doctors who are meant to be present are anywhere to be found.
Gita Choudhary died on Tuesday at the city's Mahatma Gandhi hospital. She was brought here nearly seven weeks ago, after undergoing a hysterectomy at Umaid Hospital that led to severe complications including relentless bleeding. Her family insists that her condition deteriorated after she was put on a drip after her operation at Umaid Hospital, and that there were no senior doctors to attend to her.
At Mahatma Gandhi hospital, doctors who attended to Mrs Choudhary say there's little to link Mrs Choudhary's death to the others at Umaid Hospital. But at the insistence of her family,
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