LAHORE, Aug 28: Inexperience and “negligence” of two under-training postgraduate doctors at the Jinnah Hospital’s gynae-II unit has led to the death of a mother of four children.

Reports reaching here on Thursday said Ms Farhat Ishaq was admitted to the hospital for a fourth caesarean delivery.

However, unplanned caesarean operation conducted independently by two postgraduate trainee doctors — Dr Razia and Dr Asifa — caused excessive bleeding, which led to the death of the woman at the ICU three days later.

It is learnt that the senior doctor concerned had finalized the formalities to conduct the caesarean operation on Aug 19, but the two trainees called her for operation without consulting the seniors on the evening of Aug 18.

According to operation notes, the doctors started operation at 5.45pm and noted down that uterus was stitched, but bleeding did not stop due to which they transfused six pints of blood. The patient was finally taken to the ICU where she breathed her last after three days.

When contacted, Jinnah Hospital Gynae-II in-charge Prof Dr Farkhanda Shoaib said the case was highly complicated, and known in the medical terminology as “placenta per creta.” In this case, she said, placenta had penetrated the patient’s uterus and entered her abdomen.

Answering a question, she said, the FCPS-II trainees had decided to operate the patient, which was the only possible solution to her pains.

Dr Farkhanda said it was a practice that all the cases were opened by the FCPS-II students. The surgeons, she said, called Dr Altaf, a senior fellow, who examined the patient and reported that it was a unique case of his life. Consequently, he called senior registrar Dr Shoaib Iqbal, and they all handled the case.

She added that 10 to 15 doctors took care of the patient and arranged six pints of blood.

Experts, however, believe that it is sheer negligence on the part of the trainee doctors to conduct a caesarean operation on a patient, who had already undergone three such operations.

As the patient had a rare blood group (A-ve), the experts said she should have been operated upon in the morning to ensure the availability of blood.

The relatives of the deceased have demanded the authorities concerned that they should start a probe and take the responsible doctors to task.