Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 14: Satwari police today registered a case against a private hospital in negligent death of a woman.
According to a police spokesman, acting on the complaint of the family members of a woman namely Asha Kumari (30) wife of Amit Verma, resident of Ward No 1, Ramban, that Asha today died due to negligence of the doctors in Naranjan Hospital, Karan Bagh, they have registered a case and started investigations.
Quoting family members, the spokesman said that the woman was taken to Naranjan Hospital for some surgery but during surgery her condition started deteriorating and the family members rushed her to Government Medical College and Hospital, Jammu, where doctors declared her as brought dead.
He said a board of doctors conducted postmortem of the deceased and the whole process of postmortem was video graphed, after which the body of the deceased was handed over to her legal heirs for last rites.