India, March 28 -- Raising serious concerns about the state of affairs in government healthcare services, a nursing staff allegedly demanded Rs 1000 and refused to release a newborn baby unless the family paid the amount in the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) wing of the district headquarters hospital (DHH) in Odisha's Sundargarh.

The victim family along with some ASHA also claimed that the accused staff kept the baby away from the mother for almost 40 minutes unless they paid the money.

As per reports, one Rajendra Oram's wife Mangi Oram was admitted to the MCH wing of the DHH on Wednesday after she started having labor pain. She delivered a baby boy on Thursday at around 10.55 am after which she was shifted to the Obstetrics ward. ...