Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, October 20 2010:
A chaotic scene erupted today at a private healthcare centre at North AOC when a woman died after child delivery allegedly due to the negligence of the doctors.
Twenty-four year old Mongjam Geni wife of M Joy of Khurai Telipati Ahongei who was admitted to the hospital for a delivery case died today after giving a normal birth to a child.
She was admitted to the Raj Polyclinic Hospital, North AOC on Monday (October 18) .
Family said that Geni gave birth to a male baby in the morning of the next day.
Doctors declared that the health both mother and child were normal after the delivery.
But a nurse administered an injection today morning, following which the mother complained she had become sick.
With her health deteriorating, the family called for the attention of the doctors of the hospital but no doctor responded in time.
With bleeding at the nose, the woman breathed her last at about 1 pm.
When family pressed the authority of the hospital to explain the cause of death, they said that the patient was infected by many diseases.
Not satisfied with the reply of the authority, they insisted to allow them to meet with the doctors attending her but it was turned down by the hospital authority citing that they were out of station.
Family members disclosed that Geni was attended by Dr Ranjit at the time of delivery.
A chaotic scene erupted when the family refused to accept the dead body of the woman demanded a postmortem examination and give the exact cause of the death of the woman.