Woman Dies After Family Members Try Delivery Using YouTube Videos In Tamil Nadu

Summary

A thirty-two year old woman, Shashikala, has died in Tamil Nadu's Tiruppur district after her family attempted a home delivery using instructions from YouTube videos on natural childbirth. The woman delivered a baby girl at home, but suffered severe bleeding after the placenta failed to detach, and despite receiving treatment at two hospitals, her condition did not improve. She died on June twenty-eighth, and her husband is now facing a case under culpable homicide not amounting to murder.