Karwar, June 27: Dozens of angry protesters laid siege to the District Hospital here on Tuesday following the alleged medical negligence which led to the death of a newborn baby.
According to relatives of the victim Geeta Premanand Mahale, a resident of Nandanagadda, in Karwar, had given birth to a child in the hospital on June 18.
Although the newborn appeared normal, the relatives suspected something abnormal on June 21 and informed the Dattatray Raikar, the doctor who, following a check-up, ordered that the child should be shifted to the Goa Medical College.
The relatives said that the baby died on the way to the medical college. It is learnt that the baby died of jaundice.
Ms. Geeta, who was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday, said the child could have been saved if the doctor had diagnosed the disease immediately after the birth.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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