WOMAN’S DEATH IN HOSPITAL SPARKS PROTEST

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WOMAN’S DEATH IN HOSPITAL SPARKS PROTEST

Sangrur July 13:
Following the death Neeru Bala (24), wife of Gauri Shankar from Sherpur village, at Singla Surgical Hospital here last night, protesters, including relatives and sympathisers of the deceased, from Lehragaga, Sherpur and Barnala, today demonstrated against the hospital.
Some protesters reportedly broke the glass of the doctor’s car and the ambulance van of the hospital, besides glass of two doors of the hospital building. The police used lathis to disperse the mob, injuring a few. The protesters also raised slogans against the police alleging it had helped the owner of the hospital Dr K.G. Singla and his doctor wife Renu Singla flee from the hospital.
Triloki Nath, maternal uncle of the deceased from Barnala, said Neeru had delivered a baby boy on June 29 at the Singla hospital here. She had been admitted to this hospital again five days ago for treatment, but due to the administration of some “wrong” injection Neeru had died, he alleged. He demanded the arrest of the doctors.
Sangrur deputy commissioner V.K. Ohri visited the hospital and pacified the protesters. He said the post-mortem examination of the body would be done by a board of doctors at Rajindra Hospital, Patiala. He also ordered a magisterial inquiry into the lathicharge by the police, and appointed Dhuri SDM Diprava Lakra as inquiry officer. He said a team of doctors would also enquire about the treatment given to the deceased.
Local DSP Pritpal Singh Thind said the police had registered a case against Dr K.G. Singla and Dr Renu Singla under Sections 302 and 120-B, IPC, but both were absconding. He also said the police had registered a case against a crowd of 150 persons under Sections 307, 427, 353, 323 and 186, IPC, for an attack on policemen.
He said in the attack four head constables, Teja Singh, Gurjeet Singh, Darbara Singh and Bhim Sain, had been injured. The normalcy returned to the hospital after the departure of the ambulance van carrying the body of Neeru to Patiala for a post-mortem examination.
 
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