UP: Pregnant woman dies in ambulance after running between hospitals for 13 hours

From: PVCHR Communication <cfr.pvchr@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 2:11 PM
Subject: UP: Pregnant woman dies in ambulance after running between hospitals for 13 hours
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To, 

The Chief Minister 

Uttar Pradesh Government

Lucknow

Respected Sir, 

I want to bring in your kind attention towards the news published in National Herald on 6 June, 2020 regarding UP: Pregnant woman dies in ambulance after running between hospitals for 13 hours 

https://www.nationalheraldindia.com/national/up-pregnant-woman-dies-in-ambulance-after-running-between-hospitals-for-13-hours?fbclid=IwAR2ZSdult_t-g4RM3fuT2bn3kU7WiHwbpNXJg3WhiMX8QU4daHukDGl1a8s

Thanking You

Sincerely Yours

Lenin Raghuvanshi

Convenor 

People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights

UP: Pregnant woman dies in ambulance after running between hospitals for 13 hours

An eight-month pregnant woman died in an ambulance here after a frantic 13-hour hospital hunt failed to find her a bed as over half-a-dozen facilities denied her treatment, her family claimed

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PTI

Published: 6 Jun 2020, 7:16 PM

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An eight-month pregnant woman died in an ambulance here after a frantic 13-hour 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 PTI.

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 Noida-Ghaziabad border, Neelam was eight months pregnant and undergoing treatment at Shivalik Hospital here, a private facility, for pregnancy-related complications, her husband said.

On Friday, the hospital refused to admit her and then they were forced to 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 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.

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