Sterilization instead of abortion- UP hospital under scanner

Agra: Based on the complaint filed by the husband of a patient that she was allegedly sterilized when visited for the abortion, the Divisional Railway Hospital in Agra is now under the scrutiny of the government authorities.  

After the filing of the complaint, a three-member committee was formed by the Agra division railway administration to probe the matter.

The complainant Baghel told TOI that his wife was three months pregnant. She was getting regular check-ups at the Charitable Hospital located on MG Road. After conducting her ultrasound, doctors said that there was no heartbeat of the fetus. He then took his wife to the railway hospital and the doctors there said the same thing and advised them to abort the baby and gave the date of March 17.

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He told that his wife was admitted to the railway hospital in the morning on the appointed day. His wife was experiencing severe pain in the abdomen after the operation and the pain was not subsiding.

"Besides having severe pain, she was unable to move. The hospital staff could not give a suitable response on why this was happening even as her condition continued to worsen. We eventually came to know that a sterilization procedure took place along with the abortion. The hospital administration admitted the lapse after I called the police," he added.