The MP Human Rights Commission has asked the State Government to pay a compensation of ` 2 lakh to the kin of the woman who died due to excessive bleeding while delivery in Bhind district.
The incident occurred in the Community Health Centre (CHC) was taken into cognizance by the MPHRC and by sending notice to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Bhind under section 13 (2) of Human Rights Conservation Act sought his report.
The Commission told the CMO to provide in detail the reasons of death, health status of the patient at the time of admission, name of doctors involved in the treatment, measured adopted to control excessive bleeding, postmortem report and other related documents with the report.
District Maternal and Child Health officer Bhind appeared before the Commission in the case and provided all the information required by it.
The Commission also told the Director – National Health Mission to submit its report in the case. From this report the Commission came to know that human rights of the deceased woman were violated and she died to negligence in her treatment.
Keeping all these facts in view the Commission in its interim recommendations to the Government told that to compensate for the negligence adopted while treating the deceased, heir of the deceased should be compensated with rupees two lakh within a month and Commission be informed with that.
The Commission has sent its recommendation to the principal secretary – health Madhya Pradesh government.
However, the case has not been written off as the Commission is not satisfied with the diversified facts and hence it has decided to find out the real facts of the case.