A woman of Anantpur village under Dhenkanal district’s Bhuban block allegedly died after giving birth to a girl child due to delay in arrival of an 102 Ambulance and non-availability of proper medical care on Wednesday wee hours.
The deceased was identified as Ranjita Mallick, wife of Bipin Mallick, of the village.
According to information, Ranjita’s family members had called up ‘102 Ambulance’ as she developed labour pain at about 1 am on Wednesday. But as the ambulance was delay to reach, they took her in an auto-rickshaw to the Government hospital at Bhuban.
Since no treatment was available there, Ranjita was taken to the hospital at Mathkargola where she delivered a baby girl. Her condition soon turned critical as she bled profusely. She was rushed to the Kamakshanagar hospital and then to the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH), Dhenkanal. But doctors couldn’t save her life there it was very late by then.
Ranjita’s family members have filed a complaint with the police alleging that negligence in medical treatment has caused of her death.
Police handed over the body to family members after post-mortem. The matter was still under investigation.