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Health activists successful Rajasthan connected Friday (May 8, 2026) demanded stringent enactment connected the decease of 2 women aft caesarean deliveries astatine New Medical College Hospital successful Kota, saying the incidental had exposed “deep systemic failures” successful the nationalist wellness strategy related to cause procurement, storage, prime testing, monitoring and accountability mechanisms.
The Jan Swasthya Abhiyan (JSA) submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, drafting his attraction to the request to activate the cause information and adverse effects monitoring strategy and pharmacovigilance units to guarantee contiguous recognition and enactment connected adverse cause reactions.
While 2 women died successful the incident, respective others person developed superior wellness complications, including kidney failure. A squad of 4 doctors from Jaipur’s Sawai Man Singh Government Hospital has reached Kota for monitoring the attraction of women, who were admitted to the hospital’s nephrology ward.
About 50 nationalist wellness experts, doctors, societal activists, and representatives of assorted people’s organisations and networks from crossed the State signed the memorandum. They demanded a high-level enquiry into the incidental and enactment against the guilty, saying the wellness complications among the women mightiness person arisen aft being fixed contaminated oregon incorrect drugs and fluids.
JSA coordinator Chhaya Pachauli said transgression cases should beryllium registered against the liable officials, cause supplier companies and prime investigating agencies, and strict ineligible and punitive enactment should beryllium ensured. “The State authorities should supply compensation of ₹1 crore on with societal information enactment to the adjacent of kin of the deceased and astatine slightest ₹50 lakh each to earnestly affected women,” she said.
The signatories to the memorandum included Sawai Singh of Rajasthan Samagra Seva Sangh, Nesar Ahmad of Budget Analysis & Research Centre, Pavitra Mohan of Basic Health Services, Satyadev Bareth of Oran Foundation, and Satish Kumar of the Centre for Dalit Rights.
