Daijiworld Media Network - Bareilly (SR)

Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh), Jun 20: A four-day-old baby girl died due to alleged negligence of government doctors in western Uttar Pradesh's Bareilly.

The baby was taken to the hospital with serious breathing trouble. Instead of providing adequate medications, doctors of two different wings of the hospital shuttled her to and forth until the baby breathed her last, said the parents.

As per sources, the child had developed serious breathing trouble on Wednesday morning and the desperate parents rushed her to the hospital for immediate medical attention. Instead of giving her emergency aids, Dr Kamlendra Swaroop Gupta, who was in-charge of the men's wing, referred the baby to women’s wing. Dr Alka Sharma, in-charge of the women's wing also refused to admit the baby saying that they do not have enough beds to admit the ailing baby and referred her back to the men’s block.

"We were made to run around for over three hours, because they simply refused to admit her. Finally, we decided to take her back home, but she died on the hospital stairs," said Kusma Devi, the child's grandmother, as reported in NDTV.

Though the instructions, directing the parents from one department to another in the campus have been recorded in the child's medical slip, both the doctors refused to take responsibility for it and blamed each other.

The Uttar Pradesh government has suspended the men’s wing doctor Kamlendra Swaroop Gupta and initiated departmental action against the official in charge of the other stating that 'negligence - not staff shortage - cost Urvashi her life'.