The demise of Yasmin Sheikh in the Municipal Lokmanya Tilak General Hospital, Sion, has raised questions on the kind of health facilities offered in civil hospitals.

However, health quality was not the only fear that has created panic among the local people, as the death case also revealed the fact that the hospital was surely facing a forefront shortage of trained doctors.

The hospital doctors too claimed that the women night have been saved, if they adequately had well trained physicians. Giving more details about the death case, the reports further accounted that the victim was suffering from abdominal pain, and last day, she was admitted to Sion Hospital for a CT scan and Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) trials.

During the FNA treatment process, a needle was put into her lungs to remove the extra fluid from her body but during the procedure she suddenly became unconscious and was rushed to the ICU, where she lost her life.

On the other hand, sharing his views about the death case, a doctor from the hospital’s Radiology Department said, “FNA is an extremely simple procedure and even a junior houseman can perform it. However, in this case, a senior resident doctor, who had been recruited from outside Maharashtra, performed the procedure”.