A Delhi court Wednesday summoned a doctor in an alleged case of medical negligence during childbirth in 2018.

The Delhi -based doctor, gynaecologist Shakuntala Kumar, has been charged under Indian Penal Code Sections 336 (endangering life or personal safety of others), 338 (causing grievous hurt to any person) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender).

Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) Amardeep Kaur of Rohini Court said, “…owing to the negligence in calculation of expected date of delivery (EDD), Anshu Bala (the patient) was unnecessarily subjected to C-section delivery a month before the actual due date. It is a known medical norm that premature deliveries are associated with multiple risks.”

“…clearly the patient

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