HYDERABAD: Alleged negligence of doctors at DRDO Apollo hospital claimed the life of a newborn boy, following which a case has been registered against the doctor at Kanchanbagh police station in the city on Wednesday.
Tulasi, a resident of Uppuguda, was admitted to the hospital on April 15 for her delivery. Doctors, after checking her, told her that she would have a normal delivery. However, on April 16, they performed a caesarian surgery and delivered a male child. But the child was sick and was treated in the ICU at the same hospital and he finally breathed his last late on Tuesday. Based on a complaint from Tulasi and her husband Chandra, a case of causing death due to negligence was registered against the doctors and the probe is underway, the cops said.