Two women forced to deliver in hospital washroom

GURUGRAM: Already facing flak over the treatment meted out to the pregnant women, there was more controversy in store for the Civil Hospital as two women reportedly gave birth to their child in the washroom. Worse, it was also reported that one of the off-springs died during the delivery.

The senior staff of the hospital, however, have denied any such reports amid the allegations that they are covering yet another fiasco.

Barely a week after a woman was forced to deliver her baby in the washroom on April 25, another woman named Sonia was forced to deliver her baby in the washroom of the government hospital. On Thursday, there was yet another horrific incident of medical apathy. With no doctors to treat a woman, she was forced to give birth to her newly-born child in the ambulance of the hospital. The agony for the mother and her family only increased as the newly-born baby died within minutes.

Just two days after the incident, another woman gave birth to a baby in the ambulance. On February 9, a pregnant woman was denied treatment in Gurugram hospital as she did not posses her Aadhaar card. What makes the case even more appalling is the fact that even though the family pleaded that the woman did have an Aadhaar card which they left at home, the staff demanded that Aadhaar must be presented before admitting the patient thereby not taking cognisance of her medical state.

It seems no lessons have been learnt from the Aadhaar card fiasco in Gurugram's civil hospital where a pregnant woman had to deliver a baby girl outside the hospital as she did not possess the Aadhaar card at that moment.

More than a month after the shocking incident occurred, there were allegations that a three-month-old boy lost his life after being unattended by the doctors on January 21.