MP HRC action over deaths of patient, newborn

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The Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission (MPHRC) has taken cognisance over the death of asthma patient at a Community Health Centre (CHC) in Berasia and delivery and death of newborn at the gate of Sagar District Hospital. 

The HRC has asked the Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Bhopal to furnish all details of the case in that an asthma patient died due to non availability of 108 ambulance facility at Berasia CHC besides what action has been taken against the guilty.

The incident took place on Saturday at 3 pm when the family members of Toran Singh Ahirwar a resident of village Naisamand in Berasia Tehsil brought him to Berasia Government hospital where the doctors looking at his serious condition referred him to Bhopal and for Ambulance informed the 108 call centre despite that the ambulance did not arrived for three hours and the patient breathed his last in the hospital campus.

The Commission has asked the CMHO to inform that whether the 108 ambulance reached late after getting information or it did not came and what action has been taken against the guilty.

In second case of Sagar the Commission has report from the CMHO. Village Richhavar resident Jyoti wife of Prahlad Ahirwar on getting labour pains was admitted in the district women hospital two days back.

The doctors in the hospital told that it is still time in her delivery. On Friday when Jyoti was walking near the old OPD she started getting labour pain and she delivered child near the channel gate of the hospital and by the time staff nurse reached to her and checked the newborn had already died

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