Chief Medical Superintendant of GB Nagar Hospital transferred over pregnant patient death case

Noida: As an aftermath of the death case of a pregnant woman who was allegedly turned away by as many as eight hospitals of Noida Ghaziabad, the government has released the transfer order to the chief medical superintendent of Gautam Buddh Nagar district hospital.

She has been reassigned as the senior consultant of MMG hospital, according to the government order. This is the second transfer in the line after the incident and the transfer was initiated after lapses were found on her part that led to the death of a pregnant women without medical care.

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Doctor Vir Bahadur Dhaka will replace Dr Vandana Sharma as the chief medical superintendent and he will be taking charge of the duty. 

This came after an eight-month pregnant Neelam (30) had died in an ambulance in Greater Noida after a frantic 13-hour hospital hunt failed to find her a bed as over half-a-dozen facilities, including three government ones, denied her treatment on June 5. The incident had brought to the fore the issue of medical negligence and unavailability of care during the COVID-19 pandemic, even as politicians latched on to it to slam the BJP-led state government, reports PTI.