GUWAHATI: A 16-year-old bled to death after delivering a wholesome child woman at home in Assam’s Bongaigaon district as her household didn’t take her to hospital fearing arrest amid a widespread police crackdown on child marriage. About 2,763 individuals have been taken into custody in per week in the state.
Her husband, 25-year-old Sahinur Ali, and his father Ainal Haque, 53, have been arrested underneath the Pocso Act and Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006. The duo was despatched to judicial custody for 14 days.
Doctors stated {the teenager} wasn’t alive when she was introduced to the civil hospital on February 5. Her child is at her mom’s and didn’t want hospitalisation, Bongaigaon joint director of well being providers Dr Paresh Roy stated on Thursday.
“She was 16 at the time of delivery. Though she was medically fit and was being monitored by an Asha worker, delivery at home turned fatal. Unskilled people were involved during delivery. They did not inform the health department when she went into labour,” Roy stated. The district administration has instituted a magisterial inquiry.
According to well being officers, the sufferer was shifted to her parental home a couple of days in the past, primarily to evade arrest. Among these rounded up in the crackdown are husbands of pregnant women.
“Her father-in-law has said she was sent to her parental home so that the baby gets delivered without being noticed. They didn’t inform the village Asha worker either. They did not bring her to a hospital because all hospitals are now listing teenage deliveries. Based on the hospital data, the government is tracking child marriages,” a police officer stated.
Police suspect there could possibly be extra such instances of pregnant teenagers being shifted elsewhere for his or her households to evade arrest.
TOI has reported earlier that households are protecting pregnant teenage wives away from hospitals fearing arrest, thereby shedding out on authorities advantages and free medical care.
Hospitals in rural Assam — particularly these in the decrease Assam districts which have a big inhabitants of Bangladeshi immigrants from the spiritual minority group — are reporting fewer teenage being pregnant checks and registration.
Her husband, 25-year-old Sahinur Ali, and his father Ainal Haque, 53, have been arrested underneath the Pocso Act and Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006. The duo was despatched to judicial custody for 14 days.
Doctors stated {the teenager} wasn’t alive when she was introduced to the civil hospital on February 5. Her child is at her mom’s and didn’t want hospitalisation, Bongaigaon joint director of well being providers Dr Paresh Roy stated on Thursday.
“She was 16 at the time of delivery. Though she was medically fit and was being monitored by an Asha worker, delivery at home turned fatal. Unskilled people were involved during delivery. They did not inform the health department when she went into labour,” Roy stated. The district administration has instituted a magisterial inquiry.
According to well being officers, the sufferer was shifted to her parental home a couple of days in the past, primarily to evade arrest. Among these rounded up in the crackdown are husbands of pregnant women.
“Her father-in-law has said she was sent to her parental home so that the baby gets delivered without being noticed. They didn’t inform the village Asha worker either. They did not bring her to a hospital because all hospitals are now listing teenage deliveries. Based on the hospital data, the government is tracking child marriages,” a police officer stated.
Police suspect there could possibly be extra such instances of pregnant teenagers being shifted elsewhere for his or her households to evade arrest.
TOI has reported earlier that households are protecting pregnant teenage wives away from hospitals fearing arrest, thereby shedding out on authorities advantages and free medical care.
Hospitals in rural Assam — particularly these in the decrease Assam districts which have a big inhabitants of Bangladeshi immigrants from the spiritual minority group — are reporting fewer teenage being pregnant checks and registration.
