These true stories from India illustrate how unsafe the lives of our women and children are in our hospitals and how submissive towards crimes by the blue-collared are the regional and the central governments in India. This book is dedicated to those women and children who lost their lives in hospitals due to medical negligence and treatment mistakes. When medical technology advanced, it was expected that the death of people from medical diagnosis and treatment errors will decrease. It did not. The twenty five years from 1990 to 2015 witnessed tremendous growth in medical advancement but during this period the number of deaths from medical diagnosis and treatment errors also increased by roughly forty five percent. Then what is medical advancement and where is it to be found? Deaths from adverse effects of medical treatment are increasing in the world, not decreasing. Now it is between 2,25,000 and 1,50,000 people dying every year this way. Three-fourths of these are from harmful drugs’ administration and one-eleventh of all from unnecessary surgeries conducted. Medication errors cause fewer deaths in hospitals compared to those from harmful drugs and unnecessary surgeries. An unbelievably great number among these dying are pregnant women and also unborn children who die with them. The hospital staff responsible for maternal deaths are primarily doctors and nurses, and secondarily paramedical staff like technicians, and lastly but over everyone else in responsibility the administrators of hospitals and other treatment facilities. Doctors are a good lot generally, interested only in saving lives. A few among them are but corrupt, greedy and incompetent for various reasons. The nurses are a totally devoted and caring lot except a few rotten apples among them, and such bad nurses are usually only a five among a hundred. The technicians are mostly learned and always overworked- only a very few among them are prone to making mistakes from ignorance, perhaps more from negligence. That is the picture at least in Kerala- the state with the highest literacy level in India. Kerala’s doctors, nurses and medical technicians are sought after and much admired in many countries. A word about them: The doctors, nurses and medical technicians of Kerala are the best in the world. The parts concerning them in this book are not intended to disparage them in anyway.