Do mere proclamations about spending hundreds of crores of rupees on overhauling the existing facilities in government hospital maternity wards and decreasing burgeoning population growth rates absolve the concerned state government of all blame when the doctors appointed to man these state run abattoirs keep turning away poor and hapless patients without batting an eyelid.........
In the latest such instance of callousness; ineptitude and criminal negligence reported from Jaipur; a hapless and defenceless 32 year old woman delivered a child in a running auto after being inhumanly turned away by the state's leading maternity care (Zenana Hospital Authorities) late on Wednesday evening........
32 year old Pinki experienced excruciatingly painful and unbearable abdominal pains and contractions at around 5 pm or so on Wednesday evening and her husband Jankilal rushed her to the state run Zenana hospital in an auto rickshaw without any further ado.........
They reached there a little after 6 pm on the fateful evening and Jankilal begun the now almost stereotyped ritual of pleading with the government doctors and other powers that be to admit his ailing wife without any further ado as her condition was deteriorating with every passing minute...........
To Jankilal's shock and utter consternation; the senior most doctor on duty at the time steadfastly refused to admit a swooning Pinki in the hospital as the records furnished by Jankilal showed her due delivery date to be around June 11,2015 or so and hence the doctor asked the couple to return in June and not waste his precious time with their theatrics and entreaties.........
A suitably admonished; chastened and crestfallen Jankilal almost resignedly bundled his semi-conscious wife in a passing auto rickshaw and asked the driver to proceed towards their modest dwelling in the city's Hasanpura locality........
Midway through the journey; Pinki delivered a prematurely born child and a disbelieving and incredulous Jankilal and the auto driver sped towards the very same Zenana hospital where the authorities condescended to admit Pinki this time around; but alas by then the prematurely born infant/child had already breathed it's last........
As soon as he realised that his first born was no more; an incensed; irate and infuriated Jankilal began remonstrating with the doctors and other hospital staff and loudly began wailing and calling them killers and murderers who had gotten rid of his first born on purpose.......
Seeing Jankilal's mental state and increasingly violent actions an alarmed hospital superintendent immediately summoned the local cops who made an immediate beeline towards the hospital and subdued Jankilal before he could really inflict any real damage on either the hospital equipment or staff on duty at the time.........
Despite Jankilal tearfully narrating his tale of woe to the senior most police official available and present at the time; the police authorities for reasons best known to them had steadfastly refused to take cognisance of Jankilal's numerous tirades against the hospital authorities and had not even begun the formalities of registering a FIR against the hospital authorities late until Wednesday night..........
And to think that all this and a lot more besides is happening in a state headed by a woman chief minister who wastes no opportunity in patting her own back and citing figures of hundreds of crores being spent on decreasing alarmingly growing infant and maternal mortality rates.........
In the latest such instance of callousness; ineptitude and criminal negligence reported from Jaipur; a hapless and defenceless 32 year old woman delivered a child in a running auto after being inhumanly turned away by the state's leading maternity care (Zenana Hospital Authorities) late on Wednesday evening........
32 year old Pinki experienced excruciatingly painful and unbearable abdominal pains and contractions at around 5 pm or so on Wednesday evening and her husband Jankilal rushed her to the state run Zenana hospital in an auto rickshaw without any further ado.........
They reached there a little after 6 pm on the fateful evening and Jankilal begun the now almost stereotyped ritual of pleading with the government doctors and other powers that be to admit his ailing wife without any further ado as her condition was deteriorating with every passing minute...........
To Jankilal's shock and utter consternation; the senior most doctor on duty at the time steadfastly refused to admit a swooning Pinki in the hospital as the records furnished by Jankilal showed her due delivery date to be around June 11,2015 or so and hence the doctor asked the couple to return in June and not waste his precious time with their theatrics and entreaties.........
A suitably admonished; chastened and crestfallen Jankilal almost resignedly bundled his semi-conscious wife in a passing auto rickshaw and asked the driver to proceed towards their modest dwelling in the city's Hasanpura locality........
Midway through the journey; Pinki delivered a prematurely born child and a disbelieving and incredulous Jankilal and the auto driver sped towards the very same Zenana hospital where the authorities condescended to admit Pinki this time around; but alas by then the prematurely born infant/child had already breathed it's last........
As soon as he realised that his first born was no more; an incensed; irate and infuriated Jankilal began remonstrating with the doctors and other hospital staff and loudly began wailing and calling them killers and murderers who had gotten rid of his first born on purpose.......
Seeing Jankilal's mental state and increasingly violent actions an alarmed hospital superintendent immediately summoned the local cops who made an immediate beeline towards the hospital and subdued Jankilal before he could really inflict any real damage on either the hospital equipment or staff on duty at the time.........
Despite Jankilal tearfully narrating his tale of woe to the senior most police official available and present at the time; the police authorities for reasons best known to them had steadfastly refused to take cognisance of Jankilal's numerous tirades against the hospital authorities and had not even begun the formalities of registering a FIR against the hospital authorities late until Wednesday night..........
And to think that all this and a lot more besides is happening in a state headed by a woman chief minister who wastes no opportunity in patting her own back and citing figures of hundreds of crores being spent on decreasing alarmingly growing infant and maternal mortality rates.........
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