5-month-pregnant woman asked to wait for treatment, loses foetus in toilet

21 April 2018 9:38 AM IST

Hospital authorities accepted their mistake and admitted the victim to the hospital.

Compulsory determination of the sex of the foetus is an encroachment on the reproductive rights of an individual and also puts the woman under tremendous pressure not only from the family but also from the state.

The apex court had on January 16 allowed a Mumbai-based woman, who was in her 24th week of pregnancy to terminate the foetus taking into consideration the medical report which had suggested that the foetus would not be able to survive without the skull.

Gurgaon: A five-month pregnant woman lost her foetus in the washroom of a hospital in Haryana's Gurgaon city on Friday.

She alleged that she was made to wait for treatment because she didn't have an appointment.

"Govinda's wife Sunita felt a sudden pain in her stomach and we rushed here to this medical care. We were asked to wait because we didn't have an appointment. Even after waiting for more than one-and-half hour we could not meet the doctor," the victim's relative told news agency ANI.

"We had even informed the doctor several times about the lady in pain but it all went in vain. After a long wait when the woman went to the washroom, she did not notice that she lost her foetus there," the relative added.

Hospital authorities accepted their mistake and admitted the victim to the hospital.

( Source : ANI )

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