Hyderabad: In a tragic incident of alleged medical negligence, two untimely infants died at Vijaya Laxmi Hospital in Ibrahimpatnam, on Sunday morning reportedly after untrained nurses allegedly carried out a C-section surgical procedure beneath the steerage of a health care provider through a video name.
The Ibrahimpatnam police registered a case in opposition to a non-public gynaecologist working with Vijaya Laxmi Hospital, together with the employees concerned and the Rangareddy District Medical and Well being Officer (DMHO) visited the hospital and sealed it.
In response to the household, the attending physician, Anusha Reddy, who was not current on the hospital, guided the nurses through a WhatsApp video name to hold out the operation. The girl, with a five-month-old being pregnant, arrived on the hospital with extreme labour pains, and reportedly suffered heavy bleeding throughout the process. By the point the physician arrived on the hospital, each infants had been declared useless.
Police mentioned Butti Ganesh, a conductor with the RTC, and Keerthi, from Eliminedu village in Ibrahimpatnam, have been married for seven years. Following an IVF therapy, Keerthi was declared pregnant in January 2025.
Keerthi had been visiting the identical hospital for the previous 5 months for normal check-ups. Her household acknowledged it was a much-awaited being pregnant after six years, and he or she had taken all essential precautions. A month in the past, she skilled ache and visited the hospital, the place she was despatched again after being given glucose.
Round 4 am on Sunday, she once more skilled ache. Her household rushed her to the hospital after contacting the hospital employees. They claimed that repeated makes an attempt to achieve the physician had been unsuccessful, and he or she solely joined by way of a video name.
Talking to the media, Keerthi mentioned she was given an injection by an RMP and admitted to the hospital. She continued to bleed, and regardless of repeatedly asking concerning the physician, the nurses saved saying she was on her method. “After my infants had been taken out, the physician got here and mentioned they died attributable to a blood clot. She didn’t give me any therapy,” Keerthi mentioned.
Her husband and family protested outdoors the hospital, demanding justice and motion in opposition to the physician and nurses. They blamed the medical employees’s negligence for the tragic deaths of the twins.
Detailing the ordeal, Keerthi’s husband Butti Ganesh mentioned, “About 20 days in the past, the physician urged stitches to stop any threat of the foetuses sliding down. Since that day, she began bleeding. Although it appeared as mere recognizing, she was additionally in ache, and we consulted the physician. After a scan, she mentioned the infants had been nice and the heartbeats had been good. Even after we returned residence, the bleeding continued. We consulted her once more final Saturday, and he or she urged additional scans and administered glucose. On Sunday, the ache intensified, and we rushed her to the hospital. I wasn’t even positive whether or not the nurses had been skilled to carry out a surgical procedure; all I knew was that my spouse was in ache, bleeding, and struggling.”
Keerthi was moved to the hospital, the place employees knowledgeable the household that Dr V. Anusha Reddy was not obtainable in individual and that Keerthi could be handled by the obtainable employees beneath the physician’s distant steerage through cellphone. “The second they inserted their hand, there was blood in all places, and the fetuses had been expelled,” mentioned Ganesh.
