Newborn Dies In Jharkhand After ‘Doctors’ Cut ‘His’ Genitals To Prove It Was A Girl

Newborn Dies In Jharkhand After ‘Doctors’ Cut ‘His’ Genitals To Prove It Was A Girl

State health secretary Nidhi Khare on Thursday asked the Chatra civil surgeon to book two “doctors” in Itkhori block who allegedly cut off the genitals of a newborn boy leading to the child’s death.

The newborn died at Om Clinic on Tuesday night when eight-month pregnant Gudia Devi, a resident of of Itkhori’s Jai Prakash Nagar in Chatra district, about 110km from here, came for a check-up.

Chatra police said in a bid to get more money from the patient, the “doctors” at the clinic said they would have to perform ultrasound test and caesarian to deliver the child.

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