Ruckus in hospital after woman delivers unattended

BIKANER: Relatives of a woman staged a demonstration at Bikaner’s PBM Hospital after she gave birth to a child without any supervision of medical staff and the newborn fell off the bed. The mishap also caused minor injuries on the infant’s body. The family members of the woman alleged that the incident occurred due to negligence of the hospital staff.
According to relaives, the woman, Asifa, a resident of Sheetala Gate, was admitted to the hospital following labour pain on Wednesday. When the woman’s mother-in-law reached the hospital around 5 am on Thursday, she found a new-born lying on the floor besides the woman’s bed.
The mother-in-law started picked up a fight with the hospital staff alleging negligence. The family members said that the doctors had initially refused to conduct the child delivery at the hospital. However, the child was born without any supervision of the hospital’s medical staff.
The mother-in-law was forced to leave the hospital. When she insisted to stay, the hospital staff allegedly bolted her inside a room. When the matter reached the hospital superintendent Dr Satish Kachhava, he got the woman freed.