Overview
- A 22-year-old died Sunday at Kota’s J K Lone Hospital after an emergency C-section, with doctors citing a cardiac cause, as two other patients with kidney complications were shifted to the nearby medical college’s nephrology unit.
- At the New Medical College Hospital, which performed a series of C-sections Monday, six mothers deteriorated within 8–12 hours with crashing blood pressure, falling platelets and urine stoppage, and two later died.
- Following those cases, Rajasthan suspended a senior surgeon and two nursing officers, dismissed a contractual doctor and issued show-cause notices to two obstetrics unit heads over alleged protocol lapses.
- Drug-safety officials inspected the Kota facility Thursday, seized 23 samples of medicines and fluids, and barred the implicated drugs and injections statewide until lab results arrive.
- Health campaigners urged a high-level probe, criminal cases and major compensation, while the state ordered checks of ICUs, operation theatres and emergency units to prevent repeat failures that families say have split mothers from newborns in neonatal care.