- A male nurse pulled so hard that the foetus is said to have broken in two pieces
- The mother is now fighting for her life at a different hospital in India
- The woman’s husband has accused the nurse of being drunk during the delivery
A nurse at a government hospital in India is said to have ‘decapitated a baby while pulling too hard during a difficult birth’.
The mother, who has been named by local media as ‘Dikhsha Kanwar’ is reportedly fighting for her life in hospital following the incident.
During the delivery a male nurse pulled at the foetus so hard that it broke into two parts, it was reported.
Following the incident which reportedly happened on January 6, the nurse and a colleague took the torso of the baby to the mortuary of the hospital in Ramgarh in Rajasthan’s Jaisalmer district.
The woman was then taken to Jawahar Hospital for further treatment after staff said there had been a ‘complication’ with the birth.
Speaking to the Hindustan Times Dr Ravindra Sankhla, a gynecologist at Jawahar Hospital said the staff at the health centre informed him that they had completed the delivery but left the placenta in the womb.
Dr Sankhla said he realised there was something ‘horribly wrong’ when he attempted to remove the placenta, who then referred her to the Ummed Hospital in Jodhpur’.