{"id":15727,"date":"2019-01-19T10:06:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T04:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/?p=15727"},"modified":"2019-01-19T10:06:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T04:36:49","slug":"woman-gives-birth-on-road-after-srinagar-hospital-refuses-to-admit-her-baby-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=15727","title":{"rendered":"Woman gives birth on road after Srinagar hospital refuses to admit her, baby dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Srinagar:<\/i><\/strong><i> A woman from remote Mooree area of Kupwara district in Jammu and Kashmir was forced to deliver on the road after doctors at Srinagar\u2019s Lal Ded Hospital \u2014 the largest government maternity hospital in the Valley \u2014 did not allow her to stay in the hospital overnight and refused to admit her on Thursday.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>According to the local Meteorological Department, the temperature in Srinagar was recorded at -0.7 degrees Celsius on Thursday night. Suraya Begum delivered a girl around 8.30 pm. The baby died soon after birth.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The woman\u2019s brother, Hami Zaman, told The Indian Express on Friday that Suraya had developed labour pain on Thursday at home. With nearly 3-feet snow in the area, the road between Mooree and Kalaroos, where the nearest hospital is located, were not motorable. \u201cAround 15 people put my sister on a charpoy and we walked for six hours to reach the hospital (in Kalaroos, around 14 km away),\u201d he said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Doctors there referred her to Kupwara hospital, from where she was referred further to Lal Ded Hospital in Srinagar.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>At Lal Ded, the family said, Suraya was kept under observation for a few hours. Hospital authorities subsequently refused to admit her.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Zaman said, \u201cAt around 8.30 pm, my sister developed severe pain again and delivered a baby girl on the road. The newborn died immediately,\u201d Zaman said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Dr Firdous Ahmad, Block Medical Officer (BMO) of Kalaroos, said he contacted doctors at Lal Ded after learning about the family\u2019s ordeals. \u201cWe are pained. Since we couldn\u2019t handle the case here because it was serious, we had no option but to refer the patient further,\u201d he said.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Dr Shabir Siddique, Medical Superintendent of Lal Ded, told The Indian Express that they have ordered an inquiry into the incident. \u201cIt is very unfortunate. We have already issued clear instructions to the doctors that any patient from far-off places shouldn\u2019t be sent back at night,\u201d he said. he added that a committee has been formed which will investigate the incident. (The Indian Express)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Srinagar: A woman from remote Mooree area of Kupwara district in Jammu and Kashmir was forced to deliver on the road after doctors at Srinagar\u2019s Lal Ded Hospital \u2014 the largest government maternity hospital in the Valley \u2014 did not allow her to stay in the hospital overnight and refused to admit her on Thursday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}