One more woman dies after tubectomy in Karimnagar dt.

By Our Staff Reporter

KARIMNAGAR, JUNE 28. Even as the district administration had informed the Chief Minister, Mr N Chandrababu Naidu, on Tuesday evening during the video conference that only four persons had died due to post-operative complications after performing one lakh sterilisations within two years, another death was reported from Jammikunta mandal headquarters on Wednesday morning allegedly after tubectomy.

Mrs Ch Rama (28) working as a nurse in a private nursing home had undergone sterilisation responding to the district administration's call on May 24, 2000, at the Government hospital in the mandal. She had two children. Ever since she underwent operation, she developed some complications and was suffering from pain. As she was working in the medical profession, she took medicines on her own.

However, on Wednesday the pain intensified and she fainted and when the family members took her to the Government hospital the doctors confirmed her death. After getting information, several local leaders, women's leaders numbering about 300 assembled in front of the hospital and raised protests alleging the negligence of doctors for her death. They alleged that during the sterilisation operation on Mrs Rama the power supply went off twice and the doctors had performed the sterilisation by taking a break. The people complained that it was due to the negligence of doctors that the woman had died after tubectomy.

When the situation went out of control, the Jammikunta SI, Mr N Sanjeeva Rao, deployed additional police forces at the hospital and tried to pacify the agitators, but in vain. Immediately, the Karimnagar Revenue Divisional Officer, Mr Shankar Chauhan, and the DMHO, Mr Shankar Alankar, rushed to the spot. As soon as the officials visited the hospital, the agitators gheraoed them and demanded an ex-gratia of Rs 1 lakh and house site pattas for the children. A case was registered with the Jammikunta police station under CrPC section 174 (suspicious death). It may be recalled that two months ago a woman had died after undergoing sterilisation at the same Government hospital.

The Joint Collector, Mr Sabyasachi Ghosh, said that the post- mortem report was awaited to establish whether the death was caused due to post-operative complications after sterilisation or other disease. ``Subject to the establishment of death due to tubectomy, they would provide an ex-gratia of Rs 1 lakh and house site pattas to the children of the deceased woman'', he said.

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