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Bhubaneswar, August 6: The Odisha Human Rights Commission (OHRC) has instructed the state government to pay Rs three lakh as monetary compensation to the husband of a woman, who died due to alleged severe negligence by two doctors at the District Headquarters Hospital of Sonepur district May 22, 2016.
The commission has asked the Commissioner-cum-Secretary, Health and F. W. department and the CDMO, Sonepur to pay the amount to her husband, Kshyamanidhi Sahu, within two months from the receipt of the order. The deceased identified as Rintanjali Sahu was a resident of Julunda village under Dungurar Palli police station limits in Sonepur.
According to the petition, pregnant Ritanjali was admitted in the hospital when she started feeling labour pain. She was not attended to properly by the doctors — Dr Utkal Naik, the O&G Specialist and Dr Nanda Kishore Naik, the Assistant Surgeon in DHH. The lady who gave birth to a dead female child during the night started bleeding profusely post delivery. The doctors allegedly instructed the staff nurse, Abhamayee Mishra, to attend to Ritanjali in the absence of the specialist doctor.
The petitioner alleged that the staff nurse forcibly detached the placenta and shifted her to the general ward although she was profusely bleeding. However, the surgery specialist, who was on night duty, did not take the bleeding seriously. Later, when the situation deteriorated further the nurse called him up at around 11.44 pm but the doctor’s phone was found busy.
Naik responded a few hours later and reached the hospital at 2.30 am. Ritanjali was declared dead at 2.45 am. Subsequently, the mother of Ritanjali lodged a complaint with the commission alleging negligence by the doctors on duty. The commission sought enquiry reports from the chief district medical officers of the district. Moreover, Naik revealed to the commission that the heart beat of the fetus was found missing when he examined during the time of her admission into the hospital.
The CDMO informed the commission that disseminated intravascular coagulation occurs when a dead fetus remains inside the womb for some time. The commission found Naik not administering proper treatment despite finding the fetus dead inside Ritanjali’s womb.
After the perusal of written responses by various concerned parties, the court observed, “when the patient was in crisis and was having profuse vaginal bleeding she was not immediately attended to by the doctors on duty and the patient was left in charge of the staff nurse.”
Apart from the compensation, the commission asked the state to initiate action against the doctors for their grave negligence in performing duty that caused the death of Ritanjali.
Man handcuffed, chained at PS: Govt asked to pay Rs 50,000
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Human Rights Commission has asked the additional Chief Secretary of Home department and DIG of Police, North Central Region, Angul and SP of Angul to pay `50000 to a person who was handcuffed and put in chains by police officials of the Nalco Nagar Police station in Angul in 2015.The commission has asked the authorities to pay the amount under Section 18(a) (i) of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993 within eight weeks of the receipt of the order.
The victim was identified as Markand Naik of Amantapur village. His son Mithun had allegedly kidnapped a minor girl September 7, 2018.As the police officers failed to trace his son they picked up Markand from his house the same day.
The officer at the police station, SI D K Swain ordered constable Sk. Jahur Mohammad to chain Markand as he might flee.
Later, a news item with photograph showing Markand chained to the iron gate of the ‘hazat’ appeared in Odia Daily `Dharitri’ September 10, 2015. Following widespread public outrage, constable Koili Kishan and IO Swain were suspended.
After perusal of several probe reports into the matter and following the orders of the Supreme Court, the commission ordered the state to compensate the victim.
OHRC asks sexually abused girl to move NHRC
Bhubaneswar: The family members of a minor girl, who was allegedly sexually assaulted by her uncle at his house in Chennai, Monday approached the Odisha Human Rights Commission (ORHC) seeking action against the culprit as Soro police in Balasore district refused to register a case. The victim is a resident of Chhabatia village in Soro police limits. However, the OHRC asked her to approach the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) as Chennai is beyond its jurisdiction. The girl’s father works in a company at Chennai where her uncle also has a shop. The accused uncle and aunty took her to Chennai to spend the summer holidays after her exams. The minor was allegedly forced by her uncle and aunty to do household chores. They allegedly used her as their housemaid. The girl accused her uncle of sexually abusing her many times. He also forced her to work in a beauty parlor at Chennai but she escaped from the parlor, she alleged. Later, she contacted her father over phone who brought her back to Odisha. Her uncle also registered a case against her at a police station in Chennai accusing her of stealing some gold jewellery from his residence.
