Jodhpur: One more woman has died after childbirth in Jodhpur taking the the count of maternal deaths in the district to 17 in less than a month. The women died after they were administered the contaminated IV fluid.
They had developed serious post-delivery complications resulting in profuse bleeding allegedly due to administration of the contaminated drip.
Facing mounting anger over the deaths, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has already visited Umaid and MG hospitals in Jodhpur from where the deaths have been reported.
Rajasthan government has already suspended area drug inspector Dinesh Taneja and MG Hospital storekeeper Kusum Acharya.
Police have also arrested an official of Indore-based pharma company which supplied IV fluid to the hospitals.
Jodhpur Police Commissioner Bhupendra Kumar Dak said Sanjay Shah, who is in the Production and Quality Control Department of Indore-based Parental Surgical India Limited, was arrested with the help of the Madhya Pradesh police. "We have arrested Shah and the team is taking him to Jodhpur for the interrogation," he said.
An official said the government has also blacklisted the Indore firm and Anshul Pharma, distributor for glucose supply.
The first death was reported on February 13 and since then 16 more women have died.
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