After 13 tiring hours of hunting for a hospital, eight-month pregnant Neelam, 30 was declared dead, last week. She took her last breath in an ambulance at Greater Noida with her husband, Vijender Singh as they failed to find a bed in a hospital.
Action has been ordered against a nurse and a ward staffer for laxity leading to death said the Gautam Buddh Nagar administration. On Friday, Vijender also added that the hospital refused to admit her and they were forced to run from one facility to another. Before her death, even the government hospitals denied treatment.
The Gautam Buddh Nagar district management has also ordered an inquiry into the death.
“We first went to the ESI hospital. Thereafter, we went to a hospital in Sector 30 (the Child PGI), from there we went to the Sharda Hospital and then to the Government Institute of Medical Sciences (GIMS) in Greater Noida. But all refused to admit her,” the man is seen alleging in a video circulating on social media.
His family also tried to admit her to private hospitals, including Jaypee, Fortis Hospital in Gautam Buddh Nagar, and Max in Vaishali, Ghaziabad. They alleged that the hospital management said that no beds were available. “Ultimately, she died in the ambulance. Finally, we got to the GIMS where she was put on a ventilator but it was too late,” Vijender told NDTV.
The district administration pinned the fault on two private hospitals for medical negligence. Also, the UP government was served a notice over medical laxity towards the pregnant woman by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Monday.
This comes in a string of such incidences of negligence, including the death of a newborn infant on May 25, in Noida, after his father had to chase many hospitals.