HC seeks Centre, AAP govt reply on PIL over state of city hospitals

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New Delhi: A petition of a woman, who lost a nine-month old foetus in her womb, against the dilapidated conditions in the city hospitals, prompted the Delhi High Court to seek the responses of the Centre and the Delhi government.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal andustice C Hari Shankar issued notice to Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Directorate of Health Services and five Delhi government-run hospitals asking them to respond in four weeks.
The petitioner, a resident of north Delhi's Karawal Nagar, said on December 14, 2015, she was admitted to a city government hospital with high blood pressure in her ninth month of pregnancy.
She claimed that due to the unhealthy environment in the hospital ward, which was smelly and had beds infested with cockroach and rats, her condition deteriorated and she lost her foetus. It was alleged that the dead foetus remained in her womb and was removed by doctors after three days.
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