A 27-year-old woman and director of a hospital was arrested on Sunday after a 24-year-old pregnant woman and her newborn died during delivery due to excessive bleeding in Greater Noida on January 3.
Police said the woman doctor was practicing as a medical professional without having any legal certificate, and the director also had no valid certificate to run the hospital. Police identified the suspects as Juhi Singh, 27, who worked as the doctor, and Rajiv Bhati, 38, director of the hospital, both residents of Dadri.
On the complaint of Sunil Kumar, a resident of Kailashpur in Dadri, and a case under 319 (2) (cheating by personation), 318 (2) (cheating), 105 (culpable homicide) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, and 34 (2) of the National Medical Commission Act was registered at Dadri police station.
“On January 2, my pregnant sister-in-law Komal was admitted to a private hospital in Dadri following labour pain. The operation started around 4.30pm. But till around 4am the next day, doctors kept assuring us that things were under control… but later suggested that she needed to be shifted to another hospital, citing an oxygen problem,” he reported in the first information report (FIR) as quoted by HT.
“They (doctors) forcefully tried to conduct the delivery, which caused bleeding,” reads the FIR, the woman told her family members. Police said the woman died at another hospital while informed that her infant had also died inside the womb.
The CMO formed a probe team that submitted its report on February 22. When the team asked them to produce legal medical certificates, they failed to produce them. HT reported that the post-mortem examination revealed that the woman died from “excessive bleeding.”
