In a shocking case of apathy, a pregnant teenager was denied help during her delivery after the nurse learnt that that she was a rape victim. The incident happened in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly where the girl was forced to deliver the baby boy in an ambulance early Thursday.
The girl was taken to the community health centre (CHC) Shergarh in an ambulance. The auxiliary nurse midwife (ANM) at the centre examined her but refused to help after she learnt that the teenager was a rape survivor, reports Hindustan Times.
“The ANM examined her and said she was stable but told us to take her to the district hospital in Bareilly when I told her about the case,” the daily quoted teen's aunt as saying.
The family then took another ambulance from Shergarh to the district hospital (Maharana Pratap district common hospital) on Wednesday.
“The baby was delivered at 2:15 am in the ambulance. The duty nurse cut the umbilical cord when after they reached the hospital,” chief medical superintendent Dr Alka Sharma said.
The 14-year-old girl was repeatedly raped by a man in her village on the pretext of marriage. He abandoned her when she conceived.
