Man Says Doctors Refused to Deliver Baby By BISWAJEET BANERJEE,AP Posted: 2007-06-30 03:49:08 Filed Under: World LUCKNOW, India (June 30) - Two doctors in northern India were suspended after refusing to deliver the baby of an HIV-positive woman, forcing her husband to handle the delivery, officials said Saturday. Doctors Urmila Kalra and Abhilasha Gupta of the gynecology department at Lala Lajpat Rai Medical College in the north Indian city of Meerut were charged with dereliction of duty, state government spokesman Diwakar Tripathi said. "Investigations have proved that the doctors did not perform their duties and refused to give treatment to an HIV-positive lady who was in the last stage of labor," Tripathi said. The Medical Council of India has set up a panel to investigate the case, and if the doctors are found guilty they will be stripped of their licenses, said Dr. Debashish Ganguli, a council official. In tradition-bound India, AIDS is a subject of taboo and shame, and infected people face tremendous discrimination. Gupta and Kalra refused to help Sunita Abbas, 28, when she came to the hospital Wednesday to deliver her fourth child, her husband Raees Abbas said. "I pleaded to the doctors to come and help me and my wife. They refused, saying that my wife Sunita is HIV positive," he said. Raees, a painter, said doctors sent him and his wife to a filthy room with a soiled mattress and torn sheets. The doctors explained how to deliver the baby, and after the boy was born asked him to collect the waste and burn it behind the hospital, he said. Raees and their four children are not HIV-positive, according to Dr. Deepti Bisht, acting director of the medical college. It is unclear how the mother was infected, Bisht said. There have been reports in the past of infected people being forced out of their homes, losing jobs, and even being thrown out of school. India has the highest number of HIV infections in the world, with 5.7 million, according to data released by UNAIDS last year. However, some AIDS experts dispute that number and believe the infection rate could be far lower. The truth is i would've done the same thing, thats why i will never be a doctor for my profession lol. But those doctors are not doing their jobs so yeah sucks for the guy.
i dont know how they do things in India but acts like this is appalling. They're human beings for crying out loud. Before students become doctors they have to take a Hypocratic oath which ensures that MDs must help people who seek them in terms of ailments or any other health conditions regardless of their background, sex, and etc. Anywhere in the world (dont know about India now) graduates of medicine must take this oath. Doesnt india have the Hypocratic oath? This is absolutely vile prejudice. Disgusting and appalling....
^^to them, oath is nothing....medicine in india definitely risky... there was a case on the 14 year old son of a doctor handling operation for and now this...don't ever get sick in india lol
Sadly it's Indian doctors again that are negatively in the news. (but India has the most doctors in a country so the majority are doing a good job I guess)
i dont know i mean it does have a impact on the doctors too because when you deliver a baby just see the amount of liquid that comes out of her and the doctors are sweating at the same time so technically its very very easy to get infected
well, what's new? you have doctors that refuse to treat unless you are insured and they can get paid. sure ... they take an oath; but what's an oath?
Gosh, don't even be a doctor if you're not going to treat people, and especially in India! At least they told the husband how to deliver the baby. So NO doctor in the hospital wanted to deliver the baby?!
How would that increase the risk of transmission? It would take quite some amount of blood interaction to be infected. If they are so afraid of catching AIDS, my 2 cents, dont be doctors, just stay home and be an IT programmer.
crazy practice of medicine in India really..we've been hearing so many crazy stuff about their doctors recently... guess HIV is a much heavier taboo in India then here in the US.. ppl getting thrown out their houses bcuz their infected >.< really sad. But doctors refusing to help? wonder how r their safety measures over there..
