press trust of india
Koraput, Dec 15: A tribeswoman was delivered of a baby girl near a drain on the premises of a government hospital here Friday after she was allegedly refused admission for want of required documents.
However, the authorities of Saheed Laxman Nayak Medical College and Hospital (SLNMCH) dismissed the allegation that the woman was denied admission to the institution. After news of the incident spread, the hospital admitted the baby to the special neonatal care unit (SNCU) and the 30-year-old woman was provided with necessary care.
Doctors at the hospital said the condition of both mother and baby was stable.
The woman, a resident of Janiguda village under the Dasmantpur block had came to the hospital Thursday with her mother and sister to meet her husband Raghu Muduli, who was under treatment for fever at the hospital since Wednesday. She went into labour at the hospital and visited the gynaecology ward seeking admission but the hospital authorities refused to admit her, Gouramani Muduli, mother of the woman alleged.
“The medical staff refused to admit my daughter as we had not brought the prescription and required documents. My daughter delivered the child near the drain after she was refused admission,” she alleged.
However, the chief district medical officer of Koraput, Lalit Mohan Rath, trashed the charge. “The woman gave birth while answering nature’s call. She had not approached any hospital staff either for medical check-up or for admission,” he said.
