Negligent medical staff makes a woman deliver baby on roadside in Bhilwara; NHRC asks Rajasthan Government to pay Rs.50 thousand as monetary relief (16.4.2014)
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New Delhi, 16th April, 2014
The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Government of Rajasthan, through its Chief Secretary, to pay a sum of Rs.50 thousand to a woman, who had to suffer the indignity of delivering a baby by the roadside due to the negligence and indifference of the medical staff of the Government Community Health Centre, Kareda, Bhilwara, Rajasthan. He has been asked to send a compliance report along with proof of payment within six weeks.
The Commission had taken up the cognizance of the matter on the basis of a complaint filed by a human rights defender. According to the complaint, a pregnant woman was taken to the residence of a male doctor of the Government Health Centre, Kareda on the 3rd August, 2011, who referred her to the Health Centre. The attendants took the woman to the Health Centre, Kareda. However, the staff at the Health Centre refused to admit her. When the woman was being taken to the residence of a lady doctor of the Health Centre, she delivered the baby by the roadside.
During the course of the enquiry, the Commission has found a male nursing staff guilty of negligence and dereliction of duty and that disciplinary action had been initiated against him. The lack of coordination between the doctors was also exposed. The male doctor was transferred and proposal for a disciplinary action against the lady doctor had been forwarded to the Directorate of Health, Government of Rajasthan.
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New Delhi, 16th April, 2014
The National Human Rights Commission has asked the Government of Rajasthan, through its Chief Secretary, to pay a sum of Rs.50 thousand to a woman, who had to suffer the indignity of delivering a baby by the roadside due to the negligence and indifference of the medical staff of the Government Community Health Centre, Kareda, Bhilwara, Rajasthan. He has been asked to send a compliance report along with proof of payment within six weeks.
The Commission had taken up the cognizance of the matter on the basis of a complaint filed by a human rights defender. According to the complaint, a pregnant woman was taken to the residence of a male doctor of the Government Health Centre, Kareda on the 3rd August, 2011, who referred her to the Health Centre. The attendants took the woman to the Health Centre, Kareda. However, the staff at the Health Centre refused to admit her. When the woman was being taken to the residence of a lady doctor of the Health Centre, she delivered the baby by the roadside.
During the course of the enquiry, the Commission has found a male nursing staff guilty of negligence and dereliction of duty and that disciplinary action had been initiated against him. The lack of coordination between the doctors was also exposed. The male doctor was transferred and proposal for a disciplinary action against the lady doctor had been forwarded to the Directorate of Health, Government of Rajasthan.
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