Jodhpur Maternal Deaths

• Jodhpur deaths: Three doctors suspended for medical negligence

  Heads have finally begun to roll in connection with the maternal deaths in a Jodhpur hospital allegedly due to contaminated intravenous fluids.The Rajasthan government has suspended three senior doctors at the Umaid Hospital after eighteen women died in the span of three weeks.The deceased were allegedly administered spurious glucose that was suppl...

• Jodhpur: Contaminated IV fluid killed women, confirms health ministry

  One out of three samples of IV fluid whose application has killed 18 women at two government hospitals in Jodhpur, has been found to be contaminated by Kolkata's Central Drug Laboratory.The test report from the Kolkata-based laboratory was received on Monday by the state government which says that one out of three samples of three batches of IV flu...

• Another childbirth death at Jodhpur hospital, death toll rises to 18

  The death count in Jodhpur hospital continues to rise. One more woman died today after being administered allegedly with contaminated intravenous fluid.The woman, Sagar Kanwar, was in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) for the past three weeks. She leaves behind a three-week-old baby.With the latest incident, the death toll in the city has now risen to ...

• One more succumbs at Jodhpur hospital, death toll rises to 17

  The death count in Jodhpur continues to rise with. One more woman succumbed after being administered allegedly with contaminated intravenous fluid a month ago.Prem Kanwar died today morning after being in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Mahatma Gandhi Hospital since January 31.Prem was one among the two women who had been rushed to the hospita...

• 16 women die at Jodhpur hospital in 3 weeks, no action yet

  A government hospital in Jodhpur has turned into a house of death. In the last three weeks, 16 women have died here, allegedly due to severe medical negligence.Fifteen of them died after delivering babies, four of who were stillborn. The sixteenth woman - who died on Tuesday morning - had gone through a hysterectomy operation.In each of these cases...

• 15 maternal deaths in Jodhpur, no clear answers yet

  Twenty-two-year-old Belu was put on a ventilator at the Umaid hospital in Jodhpur on March 4 after she began to bleed uncontrollably following the birth of her child.Belu finally died on Sunday."She was fine till they operated on her. It is only after the operation that my wife became so serious", said Mohan, Belu's husband.Apart from Belu, one mor...

• Two more maternal deaths in Jodhpur

  In a shocking case of medical negligence, two more maternal deaths have been reported in Jodhpur's Umaid hospital. So far, 15 mothers have died during childbirth - that too in Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's constituency - and the Rajasthan government has no answers so far. (Read: After 13 maternal deaths in Jodhpur, Chief Minister steps in)There are...

• Jodhpur: After 13 maternal deaths, Chief Minister steps in

  After the shocking death of 13 women during childbirth in two weeks at the Umaid Hospital in Jodhpur, the Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Ashok Gehlot has finally stepped in. Gehlot was in Jodhpur on Sunday where the anger over maternal deaths is spreading. Earlier, the Chief Minister announced a compensation of Rs 5 lakh each for the kin of all the 1...