Class-8 Dropout Performs C-Section on Pregnant Woman with Shaving Blade; Woman- Baby Bled to Death

SULTANPUR: In a shocking incident coming from Sultanpur District in Uttar Pradesh, a class 8 dropout working in a local hospital has performed a 'caesarean section' on a pregnant woman, following which both the woman and her newborn baby bled to death.

The incident of medical negligence came to light following a complaint lodged by the deceased's husband on March 18.

As per reports, 30-year-old Rajendra Shukla who happens to be a class-8 dropout was employed at Maa Sharda Hospital in Saini village by Rajesh Sahni to perform surgeries at the facility.

Reportedly, Shukla performed a Caesarean section on the expectant mother with a shaving blade. The woman died after Rajendra Shukla, 30, used a shaving blade and performed a C-section surgery on her to take the baby out of her womb. The baby died within minutes after the birth.

A probe was ordered following which it came to light that Sahni used to run an unregistered medical facility with quacks and midwives. Later the police officials while highlighting the gruesome incident wrote to the Sultanpur chief medical officer (CMO) to act against such illegal clinics operating in the district putting the lives of people at stake.

Meanwhile, the police have arrested both Shukla and Saini, informed Sultanpur SP Arvind Chaturvedi

The SP was quoted as saying, "We found that it was an unregistered clinic with no infrastructure to perform surgeries. Quacks used razor blades to conduct operations."

As informed by Baldiram SHO Amrendra Singh when the woman went into labour, she was earlier taken to a midwife, who suggested the women's husband to take her to a primary health centre.

Later an auxiliary examined her and opined to take her to the hospital as her condition was critical. It was then the woman's husband took her to Maa Sharda Hospital where Shukla performed the C-Section with a shaving blade. The patient started to bleed profusely following which she was brought to the KGMU Trauma Centre, Lucknow. As her condition worsened, she died.

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