Mistakes, negligence, pressure: Why routine surgeries go wrong

A 34-year-old woman from Jaipur woke up paralysed from waist down after receiving a spinal anaesthesia for her Caesarean section, a routine step for millions of births every year. An MRI showed a rare spinal bleed squeezing her lower spinal cord and nerves. A team led by neurosurgeons at Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences and Technology operated on her to remove the spinal clot.