Mumbai, June 6 -- The Maharashtra State Human Rights Commission (MSHRC) on Thursday recommended that the state government pay compensation of Rs.16 lakh to the family of a 23-year-old woman from Nandurbar who died in 2024 while being transported to a hospital after giving birth to her child in an ambulance that had broken down on the way. In its order of June 4, the commission observed that Kavita Raut, the young mother, had died "due to the negligence, apathy and dereliction of the duty of Medical Staff of PHC (Primary Health Centre) Pimpalkhuta and RH (rural hospital) Molgi". The commission had taken cognisance of a news report dated March 1, 2024 in a Marathi daily. Raut, a resident of Bardi village in the tribal-dominated Akkalkuwa taluka of Nandurbar, was expected to deliver her first child on March 3, 2024. On February 14, 2024 at about 7:30pm, however, she experienced "sudden labour pain". Unable to get an ambulance, her family took her to the Pimpalkhunta PHC in a private vehicle by 10pm. At the PHC, Raut's blood pressure was found to be "critically high" and cervical dilation indicated imminent delivery. The duty medical officer at the PHC, however, referred her to the rural hospital in Molgi as a "high risk" case. The ambulance ferrying her to the hospital broke down around 6 km ahead of the PHC, and Raut delivered her child in the stationary ambulance. The ambulance driver subsequently arranged for another ambulance via the toll free number, 102, which took her to the rural hospital in Molgi. The commission said, "No medical staff was accompanying the pregnant woman in the ambulance; she delivered a boy in the ambulance among her family members. She was profusely bleeding in the ambulance, and helpless." From the rural hospital, Raut was transferred to the District General Hospital in Nandurbar. But she passed away enroute between 3:30am and 4am on February 15, 2024.In her autopsy, the cause of death was "death due to retained placenta"....