Woman, infant die during surgery in UP, family accuses doctors of negligence
India TodayA woman and her newborn died on Saturday after doctors at a private hospital here performed a caesarean surgery allegedly without her husband's consent, following which the family members of the deceased created a ruckus at the facility, police said. Santram alleged that the doctors sent him to get blood and operated upon his wife without his consent, a police official said. In the complaint to the police, the family alleged that when an ambulance was called and preparations were being made to make the pregnant woman sit, they realised both the woman and her newborn had died, said Dheeraj Kumar, the SHO of Baldirai police station. The family members created a ruckus at the hospital during which the hospital owner and the doctor fled, the police officer said.