UP: Woman, newborn die after delivery at private hospital sealed in 2025

Mau: In a shocking incident, a woman and her newborn died after a delivery at a private hospital that had been sealed by the district administration and health department in 2025, officials said. 

Despite the hospital being locked at its main entrance, it was allegedly being operated from an alternate entrance but has now been sealed again after the matter came to light, they said. 

According to the PTI report, a resident of Targouli village in Ballia district lodged a complaint with the chief medical officer alleging that his pregnant wife was treated at Indrajeet Hospital in Ratanpura on September 8.

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According to the complaint, an ASHA worker advised the family to take the woman to the hospital. A doctor allegedly told the family that her condition was serious and advised an operation. 

Following the delivery, the newborn died, and the woman continued to bleed, the complaint alleged. When the hospital staff allegedly refused to continue treatment, he took his wife to a private hospital in Mau, from where she was referred to Varanasi. Doctors at a private hospital in Varanasi declared her dead, according to the complaint.

Chief Medical Officer Pankaj Rai said the hospital had been sealed in 2025 on the instructions of the district magistrate.

“The main lock was intact, but the hospital was being operated by opening a passage from the back,” Rai said, reports PTI. 

After receiving information about the latest incident, the health department, in coordination with the sub-divisional magistrate, sealed the hospital again, he said. 

A complaint has also been lodged against the hospital operator, and action is being taken to register an FIR, the CMO said.

The administration is probing how treatment was allegedly being carried out at the sealed facility, officials said.

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