An expectant mother had to lose her baby due to the alleged negligence of civic-run KEM Hospital in Parel on March 16.
An expectant mother had to lose her baby due to the alleged negligence of civic-run KEM Hospital in Parel on March 16.
Kanchan Chavan, 29, a resident of Dadar, started experiencing labour pain on Sunday. Her parents rushed her to BMC maternity home in Prabhadevi at 11am, where she was not attended to. "The administration staff at the maternity home told us that there are no doctors who can conduct deliveries on Sunday," said Saroj, 52, Kanchan's mother.
Citing unavailability of doctors, the maternity home staff transferred Kanchan to KEM Hospital. "While my daughter should have been taken in for an emergency caesarean as was advised earlier at KEM Hospital, she was kept waiting for three hours in the labour ward. There were three women before Kanchan due for delivery who were attended to, while my daughter kept howling in pain," said Chandrakant, Kanchan's father. While Kanchan was wallowing in unbearable agony, her family was asked to get thirty vials of antispasmodic injections – Drotin and painkiller Buscogast.
"They would not let us enter the labour ward. I wonder why they did not carry out an emergency caesarean on my daughter, even after her water had broken. They administered fifteen of the thirty ordered injections. She kept screaming but they would not let us inside," said Saroj.
She further said how the doctors shockingly kept tearing at Kanchan's water bag mouth to facilitate the baby's delivery forcibly. At 12.45am on March 16, the doctors called the family and told them that the baby had died. "The doctors said that the umbilical cord of the baby had strangulated it's neck which caused it to die. We question such gross delay in treatment and negligence by the KEM doctors," added Saroj.
Kanchan, who has lost her baby, is in immense pain due to the nature of stitches she had to sustain. "She is in a traumatiased state and is facing a lot of pain issues due to the stitches she has sustained in the uterus," said Saroj.
Additional commissioner (Health) Sanjay Deshmukh has ordered an inquiry into the matter. "I have asked for a detailed inquiry to be ordered into the matter. The committee will be set up under a senior doctor and will come up with it's findings in a week's time," Deshmukh told dna.
Despite repeated attempts, KEM's dean-in-charge Dr Shubhangi Parkar could not be reached.
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