Hindu Rao Hospital doctors threaten strike

A day after the Hindu Rao Hospital Medical Superintendent, AK Goyal, and the Head of the Department, Mala Shukla, were suspended by the hospital administration of the North Municipal Corporation — after three newborns died a night before Diwali — doctors at the hospital have called a General Body Meeting (GBM) on Monday. Sources say that the doctors might go on strike.

On the night of October 18, three different cases of deliveries were handled in Unit three of the Hindu Rao Hospital, out which one had been referred to the hospital and the other two were in-house patients. All the three deliveries were conducted but none of the newborns survived. 

While two died of intra-uterine complications, the third one which had been referred from another hospital died due to slow heartbeat, say hospital sources.

“There were two intra-uterine deaths in which a doctor really cannot do much and the other was a stillborn, which is again something not in a doctor’s hand. It is sad to know that the MS and HOD had to face the brunt,” says Dr RR Gautam, President of the MCD consulting doctors’ union.

North Municipal Corporation Department had suspended the Medical Superintendent and the Head of Gynecology Department after the family’s allegations.

INFANT DEATHS

• On the night of October 18, three different cases of deliveries were handled in Unit three of the Hindu Rao Hospital.

• Out of these, one had been referred to the hospital and the other two were in-house patients. 

• All the three deliveries were conducted but none of the newborns survived.