UP Hospital Doctors Refused To Touch HIV+ Woman, She Lost Baby: Family

Doctors at the hospital in Firozabad allegedly delivered the woman's baby only after the intervention of the hospital chief, the family alleges.

An HIV positive woman in Uttar Pradesh lost her baby because doctors at a government hospital refused to touch her for several hours after she went into labour, her family has alleged.

Doctors at the hospital in Firozabad allegedly delivered the woman's baby only after the intervention of the hospital chief, the family alleges. The child died hours after birth. The hospital has ordered an inquiry.

The 20-year-old woman was brought to the medical college hospital on Monday afternoon by her parents.

"We first took her to a private hospital, which said the case was complicated and demanded Rs 20,000. I did not have the money, so we brought her to this hospital. They did not even touch my daughter. She was on a bed, writhing in pain. I then called madam (the hospital in-charge) and she came and intervened and then an operation was performed at 9.30 pm," the father of the woman told reporters.