Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, July 27: Protests broke out at Tral in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district over the death of a pregnant woman due to the alleged medical negligence.
Reports said that Afshana wife of Tariq Ahmad Bhat of Tral Balla, Pulwama was admitted to Sub District Hospital (SDH) Tral yesterday afternoon. She complained of labour pain and late in the evening she gave birth to a baby after a caesarean.
However, hours later as her condition worsened, doctors shifted her to SKIMS Hospital at Soura in Srinagar where she died.
Today the family members and other attendants of the woman held protests in the Sub-District Hospital Tral against the alleged negligence of doctors. The doctors and other staff managed to escape from the hospital as they feared that the protesters may beat them. The protesters ransacked the hospital.
The Deputy Commissioner of Pulwama, Manzoor Ahmad Lone, has ordered an inquiry into the death of the woman due to alleged negligence. Medical Superintendent (MS) of District Hospital Pulwama has been appointed as Inquiry Officer.
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