PRAYAGRAJ, Feb. 19 -- The Allahabad high court has directed the state government to form a high-level committee in the matter of woman patient's death at Swaroop Rani Nehru (SRN) Hospital in Prayagraj last year due to wrong transfusion of blood by the hospital. The high court passed the direction after the state government admitted the incident before it. The court also ordered that a comprehensive report outlining necessary "infrastructural or procedural directives" must be submitted to the director general medical education (DGME) within five weeks.

A division bench comprising Justice Atul Sreedharan and Justice Siddharth Nandan also sought assistance from the additional advocate general (AAG), who represents the Uttar Pradesh governme...