A woman was allegedly forced to deliver her baby outside the maternity ward of Gurugram civil hospital after being denied admission despite waiting for more than 12 hours. The woman gave birth to the child outside the ward late Friday night.

“I reached the civil hospital around 7 am on Friday with my pregnant wife as she complained of abdominal pain. At the hospital, the nurse present in the maternity ward asked me to come later without examining my wife who was groaning in pain,” the woman’s husband Narender Singh said.

“I also met the doctor posted in the ward but the doctor was also not paying any attention. Till 12 noon, we kept pleading for treatment but to no avail. I sat in the park of the hospital premises and waited outside the maternity ward at night but my wife was not admitted to the ward,” Singh added.

Later, she delivered outside the maternity ward on the first floor of the hospital.

“I soon raised an alarm and only then the staff came running from the maternity ward and took my wife inside the ward in a wheelchair. It is a matter of relief that both my wife and newborn baby are safe,” he added.