Bhandup maternity hospital deaths: HC seeks BMC’s response on actions taken

The HC was proceeding a plea related to probe into the deaths of a 26-year-old pistillate and her newborn astatine the Sushma Swaraj Maternity Home successful Bhandup West successful April. Plea was filed by the deceased woman’s husband, Khusruddin Ansari who alleged negligence and misconduct by the civic hospitals.

A part seat of Justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Prithviraj K Chavan besides recorded the connection by the authorities authorities lawyer that a four-member sheet constituted by JJ Hospital, tasked with investigating the negligence allegations, volition instrumentality a determination and record its study wrong 2 weeks.

Ansari had alleged negligence, citing the nonaccomplishment to supply aesculapian records of the deceased wrong 72 hours of request. He besides claimed that the maternity location lacked electricity, capable unit and beds. The petitioner, done elder advocator Gayatri Singh, claimed that powerfulness nonaccomplishment happened respective times during the day of incident.

“Isn’t it truthful that erstwhile determination is simply a powerfulness failure, the generator should instantly start? This (incident) could person been avoided. The doc acrophobic conducted transportation utilizing a mobile torch. Generator didn’t commencement and wherefore has it failed,” the tribunal asked BMC and sought its affidavit wrong a week. Further proceeding was posted to October 9.