Mother can sue civic corporation says lawyer

The delivery of a child born in a taxi,after a pregnant woman was denied aid at a civic hospital in Bandra on Saturday during a doctors' strike, has put the spotlight back on the legal obligations of doctors and hospitals in India.The MCI stipulates that doctors must treat all patients in need of emergency medical care.Legal exerts say that a full-term pregnancy qualifies as an emergency case which ought to have received immediate attention at the hospital even when the doctors were on strike.Jamshed Mistry a counsel said it was the duty of the poor at charitable hospitals to ensure that ptients were guided properly during a strike.Emergency care cannot be denied in a strike and the hospital should transferred to a private hospital immediately.Legal