A shocking case of suspected medical negligence has come to the fore from Koppal district in Karnataka where a couple alleged that authorities at a state-run hospital handed them the dead body of an infant boy after allegedly being told earlier that the woman had given birth to a baby girl.
According to reports, the incident took place at the Koppal District Maternity and Children’s Hospital, where a woman, identified as Gauri, was admitted on September 23.
Gaur claimed that the hospital authorities had informed her that she had given birth to a baby girl and the infant was shifted to the hospital’s intensive care unit (NICU) due to low birth-weight.
However, over a week later, the hospital staff told them that the baby had died and handed them the body of an infant boy, when initially Gauri had been informed that she had delivered a girl.
Gauri said she and the family were in utter when they discovered that the deceased child was a boy, while they (hospital staff) had told them she had birthed a girl.
“They told us it as a baby girl. Now they have given us a dead boy. We want our child back,” Gauri told reporters while accusing the hospital authorities of swapping her girl child with a dead one.
Meanwhile, responding to the allegations, the hospital authorities acknowledged that there may have been a mistake in informing the mother about the newborn’s gender at birth, but denied accusations of any wrongdoing.
A hospital official said the “mix-up” could have taken place when the newborn was transferred between different department, adding that a thorough investigation is being conducted in the matter.
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