Woman, unborn baby die in botched-up surgery

Lucknow: A 35-year-old woman and her unborn baby died after a botched-up surgery by a quack couple, who misdiagnosed her labour pain as tumour, in Azamgarh on Thursday. The couple were arrested on Friday and a probe has been ordered to find out how the clinic continued to operate unnoticed for years.
Superintendent of police, Azamgarh, Triveni Singh, told TOI that Kusum Yadav (35) went into labour pain on Wednesday after which her husband Ravindra Yadav took her to Maa Parvati Sewa Sadan in Mehnazpur area.
“The quack couple, Sheela Chauhan and Shiv Chand Chauhan, examined Kusum and told Ravindra that she had a tumour in the stomach and asked him to deposit Rs 35,000 for operation. On Thursday evening, they informed Ravindra that Kusum has died,” the SP said.
In his FIR lodged during wee hours of Friday, Ravindra said, “When I went inside the clinic, I saw there was no proper machine or equipment in the clinic. I could only find photocopiers and computers there. A room, outside which ‘private ward’ was written, was closed. When I opened it, I found cots in place of beds. I found my wife’s body on one of the cots.”
The SP said a team raided the clinic and found Ravindra’s allegations to be true.
“The couple have been arrested under charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder,” he added.