Case against hospital as teacher admitted for abortion dies

Noida | Saturday | 5th January, 2019

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NOIDA: The management of a private hospital in the city has been booked for the death of a 30-year-old college teacher, who was admitted for an abortion there and passed away.The family of Ankita Bhatia alleged her death was caused during the abortion procedure. Since she had a fit before the start of the procedure, the abortion could not be carried out too. The family members did not allow a post-mortem on the body,” he said.According to the complaint, Ankita came to the hospital when she was two months pregnant. An FIR has been lodged against a team of doctors from the hospital under IPC 304 a (causing death by negligence),” he said. But Dr AK Jain, chief executive officer (CEO) of Neo hospital, said Ankita had a fit before the start of the procedure and could not be revived..