Botched C-Section
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In a shocking incident in India, a mother and her newborn baby died after a school dropout performed a C-section surgery on the expectant mother with a shaving blade.
The school dropout was employed at a local village clinic in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
According to local media reports, Rajendra Shukla, 30, used a shaving blade and performed the C-section surgery to take the baby out of the woman's womb, following which she started bleeding profusely. The newborn baby died minutes after the birth, media outlet the New Indian Express reported.
The incident took place in Saini village in Sultanpur district Wednesday night. According to the Times of India, the owner of a private hospital -- Maa Sharda Hospital -- hired Shukla to perform surgeries at the ill-equipped facility. Authorities said the nursing facility was being operated with the help of quacks and midwives.
“We found that it was an unregistered clinic with no infrastructure to perform surgeries. Quacks used razor blades to conduct operations," senior police officer Arvind Chaturvedi said, the Times of India reported.
The woman's husband took his wife to the clinic Wednesday after she went into labor. After she underwent the C-section, she started bleeding heavily and the staff at the clinic asked her husband to take her to some other hospital. As there were no other hospitals nearby, the woman was taken to Lucknow's KGMU Trauma Centre, more than 80 miles away, where she succumbed to injuries.
What the actual hell?
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Not to defend this in any any way, but the condition of some of the villages and villagers in India make this not too too shocking.
Never have I seen such a difference in wealth than in India.
The rich are very very very rich.
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@taiwan_girl People get used to very different risk levels. Like in the U.S. - very few drive without safety belts and babies are in car seats. 1950's America wasn't like that.
In India - the clock is even further back.
I know of multiple people who died handling live bare wires. It's just a thing people do on the regular. (Someone needs to run a wire to a new shed they built - what are they gonna do call an electrician and the utility to start a new account? F-that - tap the power pole your self and hook 'er up)
I'm guessing where this happened - impromptu shitty surgery is the only option vs. no surgery.
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@xenon said in Botched C-Section:
I'm guessing where this happened - impromptu shitty surgery is the only option vs. no surgery.
At a place poor enough and remote enough, that may indeed have been the case. Trolley problems are likely worse where standards of living are lower.
