Madras HC directs health department to constitute medical team to examine woman's death post delivery

After the Caesarean Section (C-Section), the patient had also opted for tubectomy, i.e. family planning operation on the same day, and she was shifted to another general ward on June 14 after completing all procedures. However, the petitioner claimed that a trainee doctor gave an injection to the patient on June 16, who according to her had not conducted any test on the doctor before administering the injection. It was alleged that after giving the injection, the condition of the patient worsened and she started complaining about severe pain in the abdomen, and subsequently the patient died on June 21. 

During the hearing, the additional public prosecutor submitted that the investigation officer had to get an expert opinion from the doctors despite the registration of an FIR, as per a Times of India report. The petitioner's counsel filed a petition to set up a medical board. 

Following that, justice Sathi Kumar Sukumara Kurup directed the health secretary to set up a medical team comprising professors and heads of the departments of medicine, obstetrics and gynaecology, anaesthesiology, and cardiology, with an order to submit the report to the court within a month. 

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