The State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has taken suo motu cognisance of a media report about a government doctor, who treated a patient for 10 months for pregnancy in Madurai before she found out that she was actually not pregnant.
SHRC member D. Jayachandran ordered issue of notices to the Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and the Director of Medical Education in Chennai and sought a detailed report into the incident within four weeks.
According to media reports, the 26-year-old woman from Viraganur village in Madurai district was found to be pregnant. When she went to the hospital on the day initially marked as her expected date of delivery, she didn’t develop labour pain.
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When she went to the hospital after a week, the doctors told her family that she only had a tumour. The shocked family petitioned the Madurai Collector urging him to take action against the doctors who had treated the woman for the past 10 months for pregnancy.