Official: Mother wasn't left alone to die

A health official has denied reports that a woman who died after giving birth by cesarean section was left on her own by doctors and nurses as she lay bleeding.

Qi Xianqiang, deputy director of Xiangtan county's health administrative bureau in Hunan province, said on Thursday that his organization had examined the case.

The investigators concluded that Xiangtan County Hospital for Mothers and Children spared no effort to save the woman, who died of multiple organ failure caused by amniotic fluid embolism.