Hyderabad: Five mothers battling for life after childbirth

Hyderabad: Five mothers with post-operative complications after childbirth are battling for life in Osmania General Hospital. The women were shifted there after they failed to recover at Niloufer Hospital and Sultan Bazaar and their condition deteriorated. The young mothers are suffering from profuse bleeding, sepsis shock, acute kidney failure and multi-organ complications. Syeda Fareeda is on ventilator support at OGH and doctors say her condition is very critical. The other patient, 22-year-old Samina from Yakutpura, has delivered twins and is suffering from renal failure and multi-organ complications. She is receiving blood transfusions. Sreelata has also delivered twins and is experiencing heavy, abnormal bleeding, despite medication. It has made her very weak and her condition too is critical.

Sarwar Bee and Leela Vathi are also critically ill. Their blood count has not improved despite blood transfusions. Various diagnostic tests are being carried out to ascertain the cause. A senior doctor in OGH said, “Three women are having infection which has to be controlled and it will take time. Till then we cannot declare them as stable as there are chances of complications. One of them has been put on a ventilator as her condition deteriorated despite treatment and we are watching how she responds.” Patient Sreelata’s husband Ramesh explained, “My wife is critical in OGH and they are asking for tests. We have twins and one of them had to be admitted to Niloufer Hospital due to complications. Hence we are running from one hospital to the other.”