In a shocking incident, a pregnant woman admitted to the Government Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) had to perform her own delivery due to the hospital administration’s apathy on Sunday, sources said.
The patient, Sukeshni Shrikant Chatare (23), a resident of Hudkeshwar was taking a treatment in the GMCH right from the beginning and it was her first pregnancy.
As her due date was approaching, her kin admitted her to the hospital on Saturday where she was kept on the floor in the Ward No.33. However, after complaints from her relatives, she was given the cot.
Around 2 am on Sunday, when she developed labour pain, doctors took her to delivery ward, but after waiting sometime, they left the ward, sources said.
Between 3 am and 5 am, Sukeshni was alone in the delivery ward and around 5.10 am she was crying for help hearing that a relative of another patient woke up and found the baby’s head come out of the womb and her relative asked Chatare to pull out the baby outside her body.
Initially she refused to do so, but when she was unable to bear the pain, she somehow pulled the baby out, said sources.
Later on when the mother of the patient came there, she woke up the nurses on the duty who then cut the umbilical cord and asked the patient to sleep on floor along with her newborn baby. In this attempt, Chatare suffered heavy blood loss.
Till 10 am on Sunday, the patient was on the floor with her newborn baby. When her relative complained with gynaecology department head, she was given the cot, sources added. (UNI)
