Mob ransacks Cachar health centre

Silchar: A mob ransacked the building and furniture of Sonai Primary Health Centre (PHC) in Cachar district of Assam on Wednesday after a woman and her newborn baby died there.
Relatives of the deceased alleged that the woman and her baby died due to the negligence of doctors and nurses. Sources said Sufala Begam (27), a resident of Dakshin Mohanpur village in Sonai, was admitted to the hospital at 6.30am on Wednesday.She gave birth to a child around 9am. But the baby died minutes after birth and after sometime the woman, too, breathed her last after heavy bleeding.
The relatives alleged that the deaths happened due to negligence and lack of care by doctors and nurses. They said the nurses even demanded extra money from them. As the news started spreading, hundreds of people gheraoed doctor-in-charge Suren Singh inside his chamber. The mob also started pelting stones.