Ensure safety of pregnant women during lockdown: Cong to KCR
Hyderabad, May 16 : The Congress party on Sunday demanded that the Telangana Government take adequate measures to minimise the inconvenience being faced by pregnant women in view of ongoing lockdown.
“Hospitals are blatantly refusing to admit pregnant women for deliveries. They are also being denied necessary medical counselling for any complications. This is totally inhuman and intolerable,” Hyderabad City Congress Committee (HCCC) Minorities Department Chairman Sameer Waliullah said in a statement today.
Citing the example of a woman, Pavani, a resident of Sultan Bazar in Hyderabad, Sameer Waliullah said that the woman was denied admission by five hospitals which consequently led to her death in the ambulance on May 14.
“The State Government should register double-murder case against the managements of hospitals who denied her admission. By denying her medical treatment, they not only killed Pavani, but also murdered the child in her womb just a few hours before his/her birth,” he said.
“Since Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao holds the Medical & Health portfolio, he is directly responsible for Pavani’s death and also the death of other pregnant women who are being refused admission in both private and government hospitals.”
“It has been established on multiple occasions that CM KCR is highly insensitive to the death of citizens of Telangana even if they include pregnant women. He can’t even imagine the pain Pavani’s family might have gone through after losing her and her unborn child,” he alleged.
Sameer Waliullah said that the State Government must take immediate measures to provide equal importance to non-Covid cases including pregnancies. He said the people were not finding any transportation to shift pregnant women to hospitals after they start getting labour pain.
He said ambulances were either not available or they are not affordable for poor and even middle-class families. Hundreds of women are facing the risk of losing their lives due to lack of transportation during the lockdown period, he said.(UNI)
