HYDERABAD: The state government will soon initiate disciplinary action against six women doctors in three government hospitals, holding them responsible for the deaths of a young woman from Gadwal and her one-day-old baby boy. It also said state-run hospitals should not stop admitting pregnant women in the name of Covid-19 duties.
Special chief secretary, health, A Santhi Kumari on Tuesday admitted in the Telangana high court that R Janeela and her son would have been alive had doctors at Mahbubnagar Government General Hospital (GGH) admitted them when she sent there by government hospital in Gadwal.
Janeela died in Osmania Hospital on April 27, a day after her son died in Niloufer Hospital on April 26. She gave birth to the boy on April 25 at Petlaburj Maternity Hospital. Before that Janeela had to make rounds several hospitals but doctors at all the hospitals she was turned away as she had come from the Covid-19 red zone of Gadwal. But when she was eventually tested for the novel coronavirus, the report was negative.
“We have fixed responsibility on Dr Prashanti and Dr Radha of Mahbubnagar GGH, Dr Amrita of Government Maternity Hospital in Sultan Bazar, Dr Mahalakshmi and Dr G Sharmila and Dr Apurva of Gandhi Hospital,” Santhi Kumari informed a bench of Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy.
The bench resumed hearing in two PILs questioning the way the doctors in Mahbubnagar and Hyderabad hospitals refused treatment to Janeela when she came with extreme labour pain.
“Had they admitted and managed her at the first instance when she came to them, the outcome would have been distinctly better,” Santhi Kumari said, referring to the doctors at Mahbubnagar GGH turning away Janeela and her husband on April 24.
Then came the role of gynaecologist at the Sultan Bazar Government Maternity Hospital who refused to examine her and instead referred her to Gandhi Hospital. “At least, Gandhi doctors should have admitted her and managed her condition,” the special CS said, citing contents of an inquiry report.
Santhi Kumari, in her affidavit to the court, also explained that a fleet of 633 ambulances, exclusively for pregnant women, had been kept ready all over the state to provide transportation for anti-natal, pre-natal care, deliveries and post-natal care. “We are keeping a watch and monitoring the expected date of deliveries. They cannot be stopped in the name of Covid-19,” she said.
It may be recalled that SHRC, after learning about the incident, had also sought a detailed report from the government on the woman’s ordeal.
Special chief secretary, health, A Santhi Kumari on Tuesday admitted in the Telangana high court that R Janeela and her son would have been alive had doctors at Mahbubnagar Government General Hospital (GGH) admitted them when she sent there by government hospital in Gadwal.
Janeela died in Osmania Hospital on April 27, a day after her son died in Niloufer Hospital on April 26. She gave birth to the boy on April 25 at Petlaburj Maternity Hospital. Before that Janeela had to make rounds several hospitals but doctors at all the hospitals she was turned away as she had come from the Covid-19 red zone of Gadwal. But when she was eventually tested for the novel coronavirus, the report was negative.
“We have fixed responsibility on Dr Prashanti and Dr Radha of Mahbubnagar GGH, Dr Amrita of Government Maternity Hospital in Sultan Bazar, Dr Mahalakshmi and Dr G Sharmila and Dr Apurva of Gandhi Hospital,” Santhi Kumari informed a bench of Chief Justice Raghavendra Singh Chauhan and Justice B Vijaysen Reddy.
The bench resumed hearing in two PILs questioning the way the doctors in Mahbubnagar and Hyderabad hospitals refused treatment to Janeela when she came with extreme labour pain.
“Had they admitted and managed her at the first instance when she came to them, the outcome would have been distinctly better,” Santhi Kumari said, referring to the doctors at Mahbubnagar GGH turning away Janeela and her husband on April 24.
Then came the role of gynaecologist at the Sultan Bazar Government Maternity Hospital who refused to examine her and instead referred her to Gandhi Hospital. “At least, Gandhi doctors should have admitted her and managed her condition,” the special CS said, citing contents of an inquiry report.
Santhi Kumari, in her affidavit to the court, also explained that a fleet of 633 ambulances, exclusively for pregnant women, had been kept ready all over the state to provide transportation for anti-natal, pre-natal care, deliveries and post-natal care. “We are keeping a watch and monitoring the expected date of deliveries. They cannot be stopped in the name of Covid-19,” she said.
It may be recalled that SHRC, after learning about the incident, had also sought a detailed report from the government on the woman’s ordeal.
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