SALEM, April 15, 2013
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Laxmi with the newborn. Photo: E. Lakshmi Narayanan
Couple allege an employee demanded money to attend to her
In a shocking
incident, a 27-year-old woman was delivered of a baby near a drain
after she was forced to leave the Government Mohan Kumaramangalam
Medical College Hospital here on Sunday, as she could not pay Rs.
1,000 allegedly demanded by an employee in the maternity ward.
Laxmi, her
husband, Samuel (30), and two children, Venkatesh (5) and Naveen Gopal
(2), who hail from Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh, had been in the city
for the past two years.
The couple,
working as labourers, used to take shelter on the veranda of
Corporation’s Commercial Complex on the Old Bus Stand premises at night.
When Laxmi
developed labor pain at around 4 a.m., Samuel with the help of a
55-year-old woman Bannari reached the hospital by foot.
Laxmi was
allotted a bed in the maternity ward at around 5.30 a.m. An employee
allegedly demanded money for the delivery. As the couple did not have
money, they were forced to leave the hospital. With the help of Bannari,
Laxmi was delivered of a male child at around 11 a.m. near the drain
on the Commercial Complex premises.
Members of
the media fraternity who rushed to the spot called the 108 ambulance
and the mother was admitted to the maternity ward, while the child was
admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit.
Dean Dr. R. Vallinayagam told The Hindu that an inquiry would be conducted on Monday.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/turned-away-by-hospital-staff-woman-gives-birth-near-drain/article4617552.ece
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