The family of a woman who died due to a post-delivery infection at the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College on Sunday alleged negligence on the part of the hospital authorities.

Shivapriya (26), wife of Manu from Karikkakam here, died while undergoing treatment for an infection, her relatives said.

Her brother Shivaprasad told reporters that Shivapriya had given birth to a baby boy on October 22 at the SAT Hospital and was discharged on October 25.

However, after returning home, she developed high fever and diarrhoea and was re-admitted to the hospital on October 26, he said.

As her condition worsened, she was shifted to the Thiruvananthapuram Medical College, where she was kept on ventilator support, the relatives said.

State Health Minister Veena George ordered a probe into the incide

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