Sassoon Hospital submits final report in Pregnant woman's death case

Pune: The final report by a committee of the Sassoon General Hospital into the death of a pregnant woman who had been allegedly denied admission by the Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital has been submitted to the state government and the Pune police.

The committee’s mandate was to probe if there was any negligence in the treatment given to the woman, Tanisha Bhise.

“We have submitted the report to the government as well as Pune Police,” said a senior doctor from the Sassoon General Hospital, news agency PTI reported.

The wife of the personal secretary of BJP MLC Amit Gorkhe was allegedly refused admission at the Mangeshkar hospital over non-payment of a Rs 10 lakh deposit. She later died at another hospital after delivering twin daughters.

Medical Dialogues recently reported that a six-member expert panel of Sassoon General Hospital and BJ Medical College has been constituted to investigate the death of a young mother who was allegedly denied admission at Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital in Pune on March 28 due to the non-payment of a Rs 10 lakh advance deposit, after the city police approached the institution for assistance. This marks the fourth committee set up to investigate the incident, following three previous committees that have already submitted their reports—the most recent being the third report from the Pune Municipal Corporation’s (PMC) Maternal Death Review Panel.

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Three reports — one by a committee set up by the state health department, another by the charity commissioner and a maternal mortality report had been submitted to the government earlier.

In a related development, a doctor linked to the controversy has been provided police protection after he received threats, said a senior police official, reports PTI.

The doctor, a consulting gynecologist, was accused by the woman’s relatives of demanding the Rs 10 lakh deposit prior to admission.

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