Police detained two officials of a private hospital from the capital’s Jatrabari yesterday following the death of a woman after child birth.
The family members of the deceased alleged that the woman died on Friday night due to negligence in treatment.
Officer in-Charge of Jatrabari police station Oboni Sangkar Kar denied to disclose the names of the arrestees and their designation as no case was filed in this connection till filing of this report.
“Once the case is filed, we will let you know their names. The arrsted officials are also two of the owners of the hospital.” he said.
However, a police official, on assurance of anonymity, said the arresstees were known as Liton and Ripon.
The deceased, Tahmina Akhter, 20, was admitted at Al Madina Hospital in labor on Thursday night. Doctors conducted a surgery on Friday morning and a baby girl was born. Tahmina died around 12 that night.
Residential surgeon of National Hospital, Asma Jesmin conducted the surgery on contractual basis at Al Madina Hospital, said Ismail Hossain, husband of Tahmina.
“She conducted the surgery in a hurry and while leaving the hospital told us that my wife was alright. But when we went to see her in the afternoon, we found her suffering from unusual pain. We requested the hospital authority to immediately call that doctor for a check up. But the doctor was then at Savar, attending a wedding reception.”
“The nurses and staffs of the hospital seemed really tensed and two of them told me that the surgeon had done something seriously wrong during the surgery causing the unbearable pain. Tahmina was bleeding profusely.” he said.
The surgeon came to the hospital around 12am and advised the family to take Tahmina to a clinic at Lalmatia for better treatment.
“We were suspecting that Tahmina was already dead. So, we took her to a doctor at Islamia Hospital at Kakrial on to the way to the clinic suggested.”
The doctors at Islamia Hospital confirmed that Tahmina had died three to four hours ago.
Upon verbal complaint, Jatrabari police recovered the body from the hospital and sent it to Sir Salimullah Medical College for autopsy.
Ismail said their newly born child was doing fine. She was with his mother-in-law.
