‘Birth control device inserted without consent of patient’

‘Birth control device inserted without consent of patient’

 Kushagra.Dixit@timesofindia.com 17.09.2025

New Delhi : A woman who delivered a baby at the municipal corporation’s Kasturba Hospital in old Delhi in July recently discovered that doctors had inserted a birth control device without informing her or her family and without her consent. 

“I delivered a healthy baby girl on July 28 through Caesarean section and was discharged in the first week of Aug,” said Sinky Rajouria, a first-time mother. “Things were okay until recently when I began feeling pain. I then found a thread hanging out of my body. I told my mother about it and we realised it was from a copper T device. 

We were shocked since I hadn’t asked for it nor was I informed about its insertion.” According to Pawan Singh Rajouria, Sinky’s husband, the thread created great discomfort, so they visited the hospital on Monday. “The OPD doctor told us that he didn’t have the tool to sever the thread and asked us to come back the following day. So we went back on Tuesday, only to be told the doctor was in the operation theatre. But after waiting for her for some time, the doctor came to tell us that we should get the condition treated in a private hospital,” said Pawan, a resident of Usmanpur. 

When the doctor asked if they intended to follow up the matter at Kasturba Hospital, Sinky said that she was scared of what had happened and was in favour of getting the device removed in another hospital. Pawan alleged, “I went to discuss the whole issue with the hospital’s medical superintendent, who heard me out briefly but soon dismissed me. Also, she didn’t ask me file an application or a complaint.” The medical superintendent of Kasturba Hospital did not offer any comments on the matter to TOI . MCD too did not respond to TOI’s queries. 

The patient’s family were unhappy about the illegal insertion of the birth-control device, the couple being mistreated in the hospital, being denied treatment for the condition that the hospital itself had created and being told to go to a private facility to resolve the problem.