NOIDA: A 26-year-old woman allegedly refused admission by the Noida District Hospital in Sector 30 delivered a stillborn on a pavement outside the government health facility on Thursday, reports Shikha Salaria. The incident happened a day before another woman died of pregnancy-related complications after being turned away by eight hospitals.
Poonam, a 26-year-old woman from Sadarpur, a containment zone, was taken to the District Hospital around 9.30pm on Thursday after she went into labour. Her husband, Shailendra Kumar, a daily wage labourer, alleged that the hospital authorities refused to admit her on the pretext that she had gone to a midwife earlier.
“They asked us where we had come from. We told them we were from Sadarpur and it was a containment zone. They examined my wife for a while and asked her why we had gone to a midwife. Then they took my signatures on a few papers and referred us to GIMS (Gov