Suvarna Ghurav (left) with ASHA worker Sujata Nadage near her home in Navapada, Satkor village in Palghar District of Maharashtra.
Though Suvarna Ghurav from Satkor village in Palghar district, then eight months pregnant on 29 August, survived the trauma of antepartum bleeding, she lost her baby due to delay in receiving timely treatment. On that fateful afternoon, the Ghurav family was in a state of panic when they saw 23-year-old Suvarna, then in her last trimester, in a pool of blood.
She was bleeding excessively from the birth canal: a complication called antepartum bleeding. Almost an hour was lost in consulting their bhagat (traditional healer), calling their local Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) worker Sujata Nadage and dialling 108 or 102 ambulance service, which remained unavailable.
