MUMBAI:
A 38-year-old woman died due to excessive bleeding during her 10th pregnancy in Beed district of Maharashtra.
Meera Ekhande delivered a stillborn boy at the civil hospital in Majalgaon town of Beed, located around 380 km from Mumbai, and later died. The woman, who used to run a pan shop in Majalgaon, already had seven daughters but her family wanted a boy.
She had also terminated two pregnancies earlier. She conceived again apparently under family pressure.
“Ekhande was admitted to the civil hospital where she delivered a stillborn child and then died of excessive bleeding,” police said.
“We have registered an accidental death report and handed over the woman’s body to her family members,” police said. One of the seven daughters of Ekhande had also died earlier, he added.
