Srinagar, July 7 -- A woman entered an IVF clinic in Tengpora with hope, and left as a casualty of negligence. That stark reality should jolt the conscience of society. What was meant to be a place of healing and new beginnings has instead been unmasked as a site of irregularities, where rules were bent, approvals ignored, and lives treated with reckless disregard. The death during an IVF procedure is not an isolated mishap rather is the inevitable outcome of a culture that allows medical facilities to operate unchecked, where oversight arrives only after tragedy, and where the sanctity of life is compromised by indifference.

The inspection reports that followed have laid bare disturbing violations. The centre was functioning from an und...