Denied admission, woman delivers baby at UHM gate

KANPUR: It was sheer negligence on the part of the Ursala Horsman Memorial hospital staff, who were busy attending a team of a National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), when a 35-year-old woman delivered a baby near the gates of the emergency unit here on Thursday morning.
At a time when the NRHM team was carrying out inspection at UHM to check health facilities provided to the patients, delay in admission forced Anita Raj Verma to deliver her baby at the gates of the emergency unit of the hospital.
Anita Raj Verma, a resident of Nawabganj, was eight months pregnant. She arrived at the UHM early on Thursday morning along with her husband Dev Raj Verma after she started feeling labour pain.
As per sources, doctors refused to admit her and asked her to bring an ultrasound report. But, on the way to the ultrasound centre ��� situated on the other side of the road near the emergency unit of UHM ��� she delivered the baby.
A crowd gathered around her and later, on getting the information, the para-medical staff from AHM-Dufferin, the maternity hospital of UHM, arrived at the spot and admitted both the mother and the child to the emergency ward.
When TOI tried to contact the officials concerned, they tried to pass on the buck. Meanwhile, the kin and the patient complained of rude behaviour by the hospital staff.