A woman in Xiangtan county, Hunan, died in child birth on Sunday, and her family is holding the hospital responsible for her death, reports voc.com.cn, a news website run by Hunan Daily.
The victim’s husband alleges that doctors and nurses all “disappeared” after the woman’s death, leaving her corpse on the table in the operating room for hours.
Relatives of the woman reportedly broke into the operation room, only to find her body lying on the table, with no medical staff in sight. Her husband said he saw his wife, naked on the table with blood in her mouth and tears in her eyes.
A few non-medical workers were allegedly eating areca and smoking cigarette in the same room.
“If the hospital had been more responsible, the tragedy could have been prevented,” he was quoted by the news website as saying.
The hospital said on Tuesday that the woman died because of massive bleeding during child birth and the hospital had done everything possible to save her, but failed. She delivered a boy, who is alive and healthy.
Her family could not accept her death and set up a funeral in the hospital’s lobby, adversely affecting the treatment of other patients.