Pregnant woman dies after running between hospitals
Victim knocked doors of 8 hospitals before she died in an ambulance
An eight-month pregnant woman died in an ambulance after a frantic 13hour hospital hunt failed to find her a bed as over half-a-dozen facilities denied her treatment, her family claimed on Saturday.
Neelam, 30, and her husband Vijender Singh, 30, knocked the doors of eight hospitals, including government ones, before she died in the ambulance outside a facility in Greater Noida on Friday, the family told a news agency.
Taking note of the death and the claim, the Gautam Buddh Nagar district administration ordered an inquiry into the matter. A resident of Khoda colony on the NoidaGhaziabad border, Neelam was eight months pregnant and undergoing treatment at Shivalik Hospital, a private facility, for pregnancy-related complications, her husband said.
On Friday, the hospital refused to admit her and then they were forced to
Neelam, 30, and her husband Vijender Singh, 30, knocked the doors of eight hospitals, including government ones, before she died in the ambulance outside a facility in Greater Noida on Friday
run from one facility to another, he added.
“We first went to the ESI hospital. Thereafter, we went to a hospital in Sector 30 (the Child PGI), from there we went to the Sharda Hospital and then to the Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) in Greater Noida. But all refused to admit her,” the man is seen alleging in a video circulating on social media.
He said the family also tried to get admission in the private facility Jaypee, Fortis Hospital in Gautam Buddh Nagar and Max in Vaishali, Ghaziabad, but were allegedly told that no beds were available.
“Kul mila ke humari ambulance mein hi death
A resident of Khoda colony on the NoidaGhaziabad border, Neelam was eight months pregnant and undergoing treatment at Shivalik Hospital, a private facility, for pregnancy-related complications
ho gayi (ultimately, she died in the ambulance). Finally, we got to the GIMS where she was put on a ventilator but it was too late,” he said.
Gautam Buddh Nagar district magistrate Suhas L.Y ordered a probe into the episode.
“Additional DM Munindra Nath Upadhyay and chief medical officer Deepak Ohri will probe the matter. The DM has instructed them to immediately carry out a probe and take action,” an official statement said.
This is at least the second instance within a fortnight when a life has been lost in Gautam Buddh Nagar due to unavailability of timely medical treatment.
On the night of May 25, a newborn child had died due to lack of medical support as his father kept running from one hospital to another between Greater Noida and Noida.
The district administration had carried out a probe in that matter too and pinned the fault on two private hospitals for alleged negligence.
Last month, a newborn boy died in his father’s arms even as the desperate man was made to go from one government hospital to another in an effort to get treatment for his child. The distraught father said he had to wait for two hours for an ambulance to arrive and was made to go to three government hospitals with the sick baby. The newborn was finally declared dead at the third hospital, the Child PGI in Sector 30, on Tuesday morning.
He later made a video narrating his ordeal, while returning home with the body of his child tied to his motorbike.
The administration took the cognizance of the matter and said a team comprising two doctors will now look into it.