Times of India: Ahmedabad: Monday,
June 13, 2016.
Himesh Vankar
and his wife Ganga, both disabled, were on cloud nine as they were expecting
their first child. The joy proved short-lived, Ganga died just 14 days after
giving birth to a baby girl in February, 2015. For long his wife's death
remained a mystery for Himesh and then he used RTI to uncover the truth his
wife had died because a cotton swab had been left in her uterus during the
surgery.
Vankar (33),
a tailor of Chandrani village of Sa barkantha district, was unable to ascertain
the cause of death because the Civil Hospital authorities refused to tell him.
He then shot an RTI query to solve the mystery. The reply to his query filed by
a senior doctor of Civil Hospital, Dr Asha Shah, revealed that the cause of
septicemia is due to a foreign material left inside her reproductive tract.“The
reply said that a tampon had been left inside Ganga's uterus which caused
septicemia and subsequently her death,“ said Vankar.
Vankar claims
that he also found that Ganga's Mamta card too had been tampered with after her
death. Having gathered relevant information with help of RTI, he is now
striving hard to lodge a complaint against the doctors of Civil Hospital. “I
have filed three RTI queries to gather information on my wife's cause of death.
After lodging a complaint with the Gujarat Medical Council I was called on
October 28, 2015 and was asked to narrate my case,“ said Vankar, who now takes
care of his infant daughter on his own.
“After
hearing my case, authorities of the medical council told me that they would
call the doctors and would hear their side of story. They promised me that both
the parties will be called together and justice will be done. But nothing
further has taken place in the matter since long,“ he alleged.
Vankar now is
a man on mission.He said, “I just have two aims in my life. First, I will help
my daughter become a good doctor and will struggle to get justice for my wife.
I will fight for this till the end.“
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