Overview
- The ASHA worker was taken in labour to a PHC and then transported by a government ambulance to the private Global Hospital and Surgical Centre, where she underwent a C-section on the night of May 29 and the newborn survived.
- The victim’s family alleges the surgical team abandoned her on the operating table with the abdominal wound unstitched and fled shortly after the delivery, and the woman died soon after the procedure.
- Police have filed a named FIR and charged the operator Dr Naseem Ahmad and others with culpable homicide and cheating while invoking provisions of the National Medical Commission Act.
- Authorities sealed the clinic again, arrested a nurse and an assistant, declared cash rewards for suspects still at large, sent the body for postmortem, and have seized records as raids continue.
- Investigators are probing multiple system failures including how a repeatedly sealed facility kept operating, why a government ambulance took the patient to a private clinic, and whether unlicensed practice and referral networks played a role.