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The Health section has acceptable up a four-member outer sheet of experts to inquire into the incidental wherein a 26-year-old woman, who had fixed commencement astatine SAT Hospital 2 weeks ago, died of post-partum sepsis connected Sunday.
The experts’ sheet is headed by Sangeetha Menon, Head of the section of Obstetrics and Gynaecology astatine the Alappuzha Government Medical College. The different members are Saji Kumar, Head of General Surgery; Latha, Head of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, some from the Alappuzha MCH; and Juby John, Head of Infectious Diseases astatine the Kottayam Government Medical College. The enquiry study is expected to beryllium submitted connected Friday.
The outer sheet was acceptable up to look into the incidental arsenic the deceased woman’s household had demanded that an enquiry beryllium conducted by an outer aesculapian assemblage successful afloat compliance with the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court successful investigations into allegations of aesculapian negligence.
The decease of Sivapriya of Karikkakam had triggered overmuch protests with the woman’s household alleging that she had contracted the corruption successful the hospital, a anticipation that had been ruled retired by the SAT Hospital authorities.
The woman, who had a mean transportation connected November 25 astatine the hospital, had been re-admitted with precocious fever, diarrhoea and successful a authorities of septic daze connected November 26. While the woman’s household present allege that she had had fever erstwhile she was discharged, the discharge summary astatine SAT Hospital makes nary notation of this.
A possibility
Doctors who treated Sivapriya had ruled retired each possibilities of her contracting the corruption intra-partum from the labour room. They said that the pistillate had been suffering from diarrhoea erstwhile she was brought backmost to the infirmary and that successful each likelihood, the sutures connected the episiotomy (surgical incision enactment connected the perineum to assistance delivery) had got infected due to the fact that of the soiling. They besides pointed retired that 17 different women had fixed commencement astatine SAT Hospital connected the aforesaid time and that nary of them had reported with immoderate wellness issues later. The post-mortem introspection of Sivapriya was done successful the beingness of the RDO connected Monday and the assemblage released to the relatives.
