33-year-old woman and newborn die at Hyderabad Hospital, kin alleges negligence
Hyderabad: The death of a seven-month pregnant woman and her newborn daughter at a private hospital in Banjara Hills has triggered allegations of medical negligence, prompting a criminal case against the attending gynaecologist and hospital staff.
According to the news reports, the 33-year-old deceased was working as a constable at the Khulsumpura police station, was seven months pregnant with twins and was admitted for emergency treatment due to severe abdominal pain and heavy bleeding. Her husband, a 34-year-old software engineer, rushed her to the hospital in the early hours of June 10.
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Doctors reportedly informed the family at around 12:30 p.m. on June 10 that one of the unborn twins, a girl, had died in the womb. A surgical procedure was eventually carried out at 6 a.m. the following day, June 11. After the procedure, hospital staff handed over the body of the stillborn girl to her husband and informed him that the surviving male infant was in critical condition in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
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