
It took five years for doctors to diagnose the reason for Harshina's abdomen pain: a pair of forceps left inside during her third caesarean surgery in 2017. It had punctured her bladder causing infections so severe that she couldn’t even walk properly. The egregious act of criminal negligence happened while she was at the Institute of Maternal and Child Health at Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, to deliver her third child.