Woman lost her baby…
UP: An HIV positive woman in UP lost her baby because doctors at a government hospital refused to touch her for several hours after she went into the labour room, her family has alleged.
Doctors at the hospital in Firozabad allegedly delivered the woman's baby only after the intervention of the hospital chief, the family alleges. The child died after a few hours. The hospital has ordered an inquiry.
On Monday, the 20-year-old woman was brought to the medical college hospital in the afternoon by her parents.
"We first took her to a private hospital, which said the case was complicated and demanded ? 20,000. I did not have the money, so we brought her to this hospital. They did not even touch my daughter. She was on a bed, writhing in pain.
I then called the hospital in-charge and she came and intervened and then an operation was performed at 9.30 pm," the father of the woman told reporters.
For six hours, the woman was left suffering severe labour pain, with not a single doctor ready to attend to her, her family claimed.
The allegations were echoed by a field officer of an NGO associated with the National Aids Control Organization who had accompanied the family to the hospital.
"I got her admitted at 3 pm in the hospital. After we put her on a stretcher, none of the staff touched her or performed any of the tests. The woman was in pain till 9 pm, yet no one treated her," she said.
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