Woman in coma for 9 months after delivery, docs booked

A case has been filed against three city doctors and two paramedics for alleged medical negligence leading to brain injury to a woman who has been in coma for the last nine months after she delivered a child in August last year, police said.

A case has been filed against three city doctors and two paramedics for alleged medical negligence leading to brain injury to a woman who has been in coma for the last nine months after she delivered a child in August last year, police said on Wednesday.

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According to a complaint filed by the woman's husband Yadav Kukde, his wife Roopali had delivered a male child on August 8, 2008 through caesarean section in a private hospital.

She lost her consciousness later and slipped into coma.

After seeking opinion of a panel of doctors from government-run Sassoon general hospital on possible medical negligence in the case, three doctors including an anaesthetist involved in the procedure have been booked, police said on Wedesday.