Gynaecologist refuses to examine, woman dies at Uri Hospital; Inquiry ordered

Uri: Government doctors including a Gynaecologist at a Sub-district hospital in Uri have been accused of medical negligence following the death of a woman patient in Kashmir's Baramulla district on Wednesday.   

The deceased woman's husband held the doctors responsible for his wife's passing claiming that the on-duty gynaecologist when approached by him refused to examine her wife even after being informed of the seriousness of her condition.     

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As per a Brighter Kashmir news report, the woman was admitted to the SDH Uri on July 18 and reportedly underwent ligation surgery. The next day she was discharged from the hospital. The husband claimed that her wife's health worsened in the next few days following her discharge.  

On July 29, he brought his wife back to the hospital but the gynaecologist refused to treat her and she was eventually transferred to Baramulla by another doctor at the hospital. However, the woman died after reaching the hospital at Baramulla.