The Telangana Government has initiated stern action in the death of four women due to a botched family planning operation at a mass sterilisation camp at the Community Health Centre in Ibrahimpatnam on Hyderabad outskirts on August 25.
The government has transferred the Rangareddy District Medical and Health Officer Swaraj Laxmi and in-charge District Coordinator of Hospital Services Jhansi Laxmi. It also issued an order to file a criminal case against the duty doctor who conducted the procedure and initiated disciplinary action against twelve other medical officers and para-medical staff.
To prevent recurrence of such incidents in future, the government has also issued certain guidelines including making tubectomy and Double Puncture Laparoscopy (DPL) operations as an integral part of hospital service delivery system and not as camps. Henceforth, the DPL surgeries shall be conducted as fixed day services along with other services extended by a hospital and the women who undergo DPL procedure shall be kept in at least 24-hour mandatory post-operative care at the same facility.
