Warangal doctor instructs delivery on phone, baby dies

According to sources, the pregnant woman, Kasireddy Srija of Gundepudi, Maripeda mandal in Mahbubabad district, was admitted with labour pains on Friday evening.
Dr Manasa Reddy, who was on duty, left the hospital without conducting tests on the woman. She asked the nurses on duty to take care of the patient.

After some time, when Srija complained of severe labour pains, nurse Sunitha and auxilliary nurse midwife (ANM) Subhadra informed Dr Manasa Reddy about Srija’s condition.
Srija’s husband Naresh urged the hospital staff to perform surgery instead of waiting for a normal delivery. However, Dr Manasa Reddy ordered the nurses to conduct normal delivery and informed them that she would give instructions on the phone. The nurses took Srija to the labour room and performed a normal delivery.

Srija gave birth to a baby boy. But the nurses did not show the baby to her parents and shifted the newborn to the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) Hospital, ostensibly for a check-up. The next day, they informed that the baby had died while undergoing treatment in the MGM Hospital.

Naresh apprehended that the nurses might have conducted the delivery forcibly because of which his child had died. He and other family members, who protested in front of the hospital, alleged that even after insisting on a C-section, the nurses had gone for a normal delivery while receiving instructions on phone from the duty doctor. It was only because of negligence of the hospital staff that their child had died, they added.

Naresh lodged a complaint with Wardhannapet police against Dr Manasa Reddy, Sunitha and Subadra.

Police said that they had registered a case under IPC Section 304 (A) for the death of the newborn due to medical negligence and started an investigation.