Rajasthan: Doctor's negligence causes pregnant woman to give birth near hospital's gate in Jaipur
PTI. On Wednesday, April 3, a pregnant woman experienced labour pain but was denied admission to the hospital. An official informed that the woman subsequently gave birth to the child near the gate of the hospital on the same day, as reported by PTI.
According to the official statement, Shubhra Singh, the Additional Chief Secretary of Medical Education, constituted an inquiry committee as soon as the matter came to light. Based on the committee's report, three resident doctors of Kanwatia Hospital in Jaipur, Kusum Saini, Neha Rajawat and Manoj, were suspended on charges of “serious negligence and insensitivity." The statement added that a show cause notice was also issued to the Kanwatia Hospital Superintendent, Dr Rajendra Singh Tanwar, for supervisory negligence in this case. In another incident, this time at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi, a 24-year-old NEET aspirant was arrested for allegedly posing as a doctor.
The incident took place in February when the hospital authorities caught the accused, Ashutosh Tripathi, in the emergency department wearing a stethoscope and carrying a doctor's apron in his bag, the police informed. The police officer was quoted as saying, “He would love to wear the doctor's apron and stethoscope. But he failed to reveal the source of these articles." The officer added it appeared that the accused entered the hospital with the intention of theft.
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