Private school teacher dies of birth complications in Tamil Nadu's Tirupur after trying to deliver baby at home

COIMBATORE: Love for natural medicine has turned into a nightmare for the 28-year-old teacher as she went unconscious and died hours after delivering a baby at her house near Udupalayam in Tiruppur district.

On Sunday, the victim K Krithiga (28), teacher in a private school, has sustained labour pain. However, she was not rushed to any of the hospitals over there. With love for natural medicine, Krithiga's husband Karthikeyan and their friends Praveen and Lavanya have assisted the pregnant women in giving birth in a natural way at their home.

Nevertheless, none of the three persons was medically qualified. "All the three have only learnt it by watching videos in YouTube," said a police official. According to sources, on Sunday after delivering a baby, Krithiga went unconscious as she lost lot of blood in the placental bleed. Soon she was rushed to a private hospital, where doctors declared her brought dead.

The incident became known only after they took the body to Tirupur Government Hospital, where the doctors sought for a medical certificate from them. As the family members did not have any medical certificate, they lodged a formal complaint in the Nallur police, who have filed a case of suspicious death and are probing into the matter.

The incident has come as a shock to the health officials as there were no records that Krithiga is pregnant. "She has not consulted the doctor, right from the time of pregnancy. We have only the details of her first pregnancy," a health department official said.

However, we have asked the details about her to her family members. Meanwhile, Reproductive and Child Health Commissioner Darez Ahammed has asked for a detail inquiry report in this regard. While the police officials confirm that the three person have helped her in giving birth with the Youtube tutorial videos, Darex Ahammed was not sure about it and said that he would come to know only after he gets the report.

It may also be recalled that in Coimbatore, a woman had given birth to a baby in a similar manner and it came out only when she approached a doctor as the child's placenta was infected.