Tral: At a time when the State Government is declaring cash rewards to prevent female foeticide, a shocking incident has occurred in South Kashmir’s Tral town where a lady doctor allegedly conducted an abortion of a female who soon after the operation developed some complications and breathed her last at SMHS Hospital.

Reports said that people staged a massive protest in Tral towns after the death of a woman and demanding immediate arrest of the husband of the deceased woman and the lady doctor.

Locals told CNS, that a lady doctor (name withheld) conducted abortion of a 21 year old married female on the instructions of her husband Farooq Ahmed Kumar at her private nameless clinic located opposite Sub District Hospital Tral.

Soon after the operation, the condition of patient worsened and the said lady doctor admitted her in SDH Tral where after checkup she was referred to SMHS hospital Srinagar. Followeing the instructions of the doctors, the husband of the patient shifted her to Srinagar where the woman breathed her last on Wednesday.

Demanding stern punishment for the lady doctor and the husband of the deceased woman, protestors staged protest in Tral and blocked traffic for hours. Protestors alleged that the said lady doctor in the past as well has performed such operations in lieu of heft amounts. Reports said that the deceased woman, Mehmooda Banoo hails Satoora Tral. Block Medical Officer Tral, Dr Shakeel Ahmed told CNS that they have conducted the post mortem of the deceased womand and are waiting for the FSL report. “We will take action only after getting the report,” he said.

When contacted, Director Health Service Kashmir, Dr Saleem-ur-Rehman told CNS that the lady doctor will certainly face the music if her guilt is proved. (CNS)