Abid Bashir
Srinagar (NVI): The Covid-19 death toll in Jammu and Kashmir reached seven today after the samples of a deceased pregnant lady turned out to be positive, officials said.
A pregnant woman, who gave birth to twins at a hospital in Anantnag on Saturday, had died soon after she was operated upon. The doctors, while suspecting the woman as Covid-19 positive had taken her samples, the results of which came as positive today.
The authorities had ordered a probe into the death of the pregnant lady after her relatives had alleged delayed treatment at a maternity hospital at South Kashmir’s Anantnag.
The woman, who hailed from Kharpora village that has been declared as a red zone by the administration, was admitted at Child and Maternity Hospital Anantnag on Saturday. Family members alleged that since she hailed from a red zone area, doctors were hesitant to treat her. “The delay in her treatment caused her death,” a family member said.
However, when she was operated, she breathed her last soon after giving birth to twins. The doctors at the hospital took her samples and the same were sent to Chest Disease hospital, Srinagar. “The sample results of woman who died yesterday have come as positive,” a senior doctor at the CD hospital told NVI.
With the woman’s death, the number of Covid-19 deaths in J&K has reached seven including another woman from Jammu region. Sources said that two doctors and paramedics team who attended to the woman at the hospital at Anantnag have been put under quarantine. Many of her family members have been also put under quarantine.
