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TIRUVANNAMALAI: Relatives of a 33-year-old woman who died after giving birth to a baby boy staged a protest outside a private hospital on Tuesday demanding action against the doctor and staff for medical negligence .

The deceased woman has been identified as Kavitha, 33, wife of Sivakumar, 39, of Chellangkuppam. Sivakumar is a daily waged earner. The couple have two daughters aged 11 and 7 years.

Kavitha became pregnant again and was undergoing medication and medical diagnosis at JIPMER in Puducherry. Doctors, who found Kavitha to be anaemic, recommended blood transfusion before the due date (April 18).

Sivakumar, who sustained a hip fracture in an accident, had been admitted to Government Hospital in Chennai for more than one month .

Relatives and family members of Sivakumar took Kavitha to Sri Balaji Hospital in Tiruvannamalai town for blood transfusion on Monday .

Dr Jayalakshmi of the hospital diagnosed Kavitha and said the foetus was in a critical condition. They asked the relatives to admit her immediately for a C-section.

After the C-section , Kavitha underwent sterilization. The woman started to bleed profusely. She was sent to Tiruvannamalai Government Medical College and Hospital in an autorickshaw without any medical support.

Doctors in the Tiruvannamalai GH declared that Kavitha was brought dead.

Condemning medical negligence of the private hospital staff, more than 50 relatives of Kavitha carrying the newborn staged a protest in front of it on Tuesday morning .

Police officials and a few local politicians came to the spot and pacified the relatives. They assured them that the family would get a compensation. Following this, the relatives withdrew their protest.

