Are Our Women And Children Safe In Our Hospitals‪?‬

When medical technology advanced, it was expected that the death of people from medical diagnosis and treatment errors will decrease. It did not. The twenty five years from 1990 to 2015 witnessed tremendous growth in medical advancement but during this period the number of deaths from medical diagnosis and treatment errors also increased by roughly forty five percent. Then what is medical advancement and where is it to be found?

Deaths from adverse effects of medical treatment are increasing in the world, not decreasing. Now it is between 2,25,000 and 1,50,000 people dying every year this way. Three-fourths of these are from harmful drugs' administration and one-eleventh of all from unnecessary surgeries conducted. Medication errors cause fewer deaths in hospitals compared to those from harmful drugs and unnecessary surgeries. An unbelievably great number among these dying are pregnant women and also unborn children who die with them.

These true stories from India illustrate how unsafe the lives of our women and children are in our hospitals and how submissive towards crimes by the blue-collared the regional and the central governments in India are. This book is dedicated to those women and children who lost their lives in hospitals due to medical negligence and treatment mistakes.