It was 25-year-old Manisha Dore's seventh month of pregnancy when she unexpectedly went into labour on November 17. An almost three-hour delay in getting an ambulance at Khodala village, where she resides, led to her and the new-born's death. While the baby died when Manisha was undergoing a caesarean section at the Nashik district health centre, she succumbed to excessive blood loss two days later.

When Manisha went into labour and started bleeding, her husband Sanya Dore took her to the primary health centre in Khodala. Doctors and nursing staff tried to stop the bleeding but they couldn't. They then asked her family members to take her to the district hospital.