Infant die over Rs. 200 in Jalandhar

A five-day old newborn died in Jalandhar's Civil Hospital when the doctors removed her from the incubator because her parents could not pay Rs. 200 in advance that the hospital asked for, media reports said today.

Reports said that the baby was born on July 20 and had to be kept in an incubator.

According to reports, the hospital on Wednesday told the baby's father, who works as a painter, to pay electricity charges to run the incubator.


When he failed to pay up the sum, the child was taken off the incubator and died soon after.


The hospital SMO has refused to take responsibility for the infant's death but has ordered an internal probe, reports said.

In a shocking incident that has put humanity to shame, a newborn girl child died at a government hospital in Jalandhar (Punjab) after doctors removed her from the incubator because her parents could not pay Rs 200.

The girl child was born on July 20. Being a premature baby, she needed incubator support. However, civil hospital authorities asked her father to arrange money - to pay the electricity charges to run incubator – to continue keeping the baby in incubator.

A painter by profession, Sanjiv Kumar, could not arrange Rs 200 demanded by the hospital. The poor man asked many people to lend him money but no one came forward to help.

Despite Kumar’s inability to pay Rs 200, hospital authorities, showing no empathy, removed the incubator leading to the death of the baby on Wednesday night.

Kumar said, "The baby was very ill. They (hospital authorities) asked us to deposit Rs 200 first. We begged and pleaded them to admit our child but they refused."

He also alleged that the glucose drip was also removed from the baby for non payment of dues.

The child’s mother Sunita is inconsolable. “They killed my child,” she said.

Hospital CMO says that he can’t believe that an incident like this can happen. He has asked the baby’s father to submit a complaint and then he will look into the matter.

Meanwhile, the state government has ordered an inquiry into the incident.

The incident marks a new low in the absolute lack of compassion in our society. A baby loses life for Rs 200, what next?

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