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Source: The Daily
Post (Fiji); April 26, 2003 Fiji Woman Nearly Dies From Botched Abortion Suva, Fiji -- A twenty-year-old girl is in serious condition at the Suva Private Hospital after she almost bled to death following an abortion on last Tuesday. This comes on the heels of a young woman who died following a legal abortion last month. Acting Police Commissioner Moses Driver yesterday said preliminary investigations had revealed that the second year University of the South Pacific student had undergone the abortion at a Suva abortion practitioner's office. "The information so far shows that it was an abortion," Driver said. Driver could not say who the doctor was but police spokesman Inspector Isikeli Sauliga said in a police statement that the girl had visited Dr. Sachida Mudaliar's office with her boyfriend on Tuesday. Mudaliar is currently on trial charged with manslaughter for carrying out an abortion on another USP student a month ago, which led to her death. Inspector Sauliga said the girl visited the office with her boyfriend on Tuesday and gave birth at 2am the next morning. He said the baby was disposed off by the boyfriend but could not say where the baby was disposed or whether police had located him. A police source, however, said after visiting the surgery, the girl and her boyfriend had booked into a Suva hotel on the same night. The source said the girl gave birth and in the process, started bleeding. A check at the hotel confirmed the police had been at the hotel questioning them over the duo. According to the staff, police told them the girl and the boyfriend had checked in at 12 midnight on Tuesday and left the hotel for a hospital at 5am, three hours after she had given birth and started bleeding. A doctor at the Suva Private Hospital said the girl was heavily bleeding when she came to the hospital. Yesterday, Mudaliar denied having any knowledge of the abortion. When told the allegation was made in a police statement, he said, "I have nothing to do with it." Meanwhile, Mudaliar appeared in the Suva court yesterday on a charge of manslaughter over an abortion he performed that led to the death of a University of the South Pacific student. State prosecutor Jone Rabuku informed the court that the full post-mortem examination results should be ready by the next appearance on May 16.
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