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Maternal deaths and a search for answers inside Rajasthan’s second biggest govt healthcare facility

The Indian Express·Parul Kulshrestha·24 days ago
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Patients at the New College Medical Hospital in Kota. (Express photo: Parul Kulshrestha) In the courtyard of his one-room home in Kota’s Crusher Basti, a solemn Ravi Nayak stands folding up a yellow-and-red shamiana, meant for his 20-year-old wife’s funeral. Having just seen the last mourners out of his rented accommodation, the 21-year-old is taut with anger, grief and exhaustion. “My wife had anxiety, and soon, she stopped passing urine. Because of this, her body swelled up and she couldn’t open her eyes,” Ravi says. Ravi Nayak’s wife Jyoti died this week after suffering kidney failure at the New College Medical Hospital in Rajasthan’s Kota — one of two new mothers who died after developing similar complications following C-section deliveries on the same day in the hospital’s gynaecology ward. This came after the women complained of discomfort, chest pain and an inability to pass urine. Kota Divisional Commissioner Anil Agarwal meeting families of the affected women.…

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