Fireworks outside labour room: Nurse suspended, 5 MBBS interns removed from OT duty

Sagar: The authorities of Bundelkhand Medical College and Hospital, Sagar suspended a nurse, while 5 MBBS interns have been removed from Operation Theatre (OT) duty after they were seen bursting crackers outside the labour room, near the oxygen pipeline at the hospital in a video that went viral last Friday.

Further, a show-cause notice has been issued to Gynaecology department head of the institution who has been told to reply in three days as she did not respond despite repeated calls over bursting crackers issue.

The move comes based on the report submitted by an investigation committee constituted by the Dean of medical college to probe the matter.

College administration swung into action after video went viral and investigated into matter confirmed negligence of medical interns and nurse who were involved in bursting crackers outside labour room.

PTI reports that a 26-year-old woman allegedly died due to negligence of the staff in the maternity ward of a government hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district, an official said on Saturday.

What prompted the action was a media report about some staff members lighting fireworks in the corridor outside the ward and being careless about attending to the patient hours before her death.

The woman died at Bundelkhand Medical College and Hospital on Thursday night. Subsequently, a video of staff celebrating Diwali with fireworks circulated on social media.

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In action against the staff, a nurse was suspended, a show-cause notice was served to a doctor and warning letters were issued to five interns on the basis of the media report and videos, said the college's spokesperson Dr Umesh Patel on Saturday.

The five interns were also removed from duty in the labour room and operation theatre in the gynecology department, he said.

The warning letter cited the news report which claimed that the woman died due to the staff's negligence.

"After watching the video footage and receiving information from the staff, this incident (as reported in local media) was found to be true," the letter said.

Meanwhile, college dean Dr RS Verma told The Free Press Journal, "It is a major lapse on part of medical interns. As they are students, they cannot be suspended. So, we have removed them from OT and deployed them in wards," he added.

Addressing the issue of woman's death, college dean Dr RS Verma told the daily, "As for woman's death after delivery, post- mortem report shows that cause of death is due to food stuck in wind pipe. We investigated the matter and came to know that family members fed patient at night and she vomited. Food stuck up in wind pipe caused death."

The woman's husband has filed a complaint alleging that his wife died after she was administered some injections following delivery, said City Superintendent of Police (CSP) Ravindra Mishra.

The woman had given birth to a baby, as per the complaint.

Her viscera was sent for forensic investigation but no offense has been registered yet as the report was awaited, he said.

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