The Karnataka government on Sunday formed a four-member panel to probe the maternal deaths in Ballari hospital and elsewhere in the state. The government said the Karnataka Skill Development Corporation Managing Director M Kanagavalli, Assistant Drug Controller Venkatesh, Microbiologist in the Bangalore Medical College Dr Aseema Banu and a senior pharmacology professor nominated by the Rajiv Gandhi University Health Sciences …
A series of deaths of mothers at the Ballari District Hospital in Karnataka has triggered concern, and questions about Ringer’s Lactate an IV fluid that is used commonly by doctors. Now, the Karnataka Health Department has written to the Drugs Controller General of India to investigate the Standard Quality certification issued by the Central Drugs Laboratory, Kolkata, to M/s. Following …
The death of four mothers after delivery in the State-run district hospital attached to the Ballari Medical College and Research Centre in Ballari of Karnataka has raised concerns as the State’s maternal and infant mortality rate is considerably low. An experts committee from the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, which probed the deaths, had concluded that the four women …
