Two newborns die in Indore hospital, kin declare extra deaths; docs refute allegation
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INDORE: At least two new child infants died in Maharaja Tukojirao Holkar (MTH) Hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore within the span of 24 hours, reported PTI.
The kin of the deceased claimed that 18 new child deaths had been reported within the hospital within the span of seven days and demanded a high-level inquiry into the incidents. Meanwhile, Indore district administration and hospital authorities rubbished the allegations and stated that solely 2 infants died in 24 hours. Parents of one of many deceased newborns alleged that their child died after consuming milk given by the hospital administration.
“My daughter gave birth to a baby a few days ago. A nurse administered the baby milk orally after which it died,” claimed Kamal Jatav, one of many protesters, whereas speaking to reporters.
But Dr Sunil Arya, in command of the Special Newborn Care Unit, denied that contaminated milk was administered to any child. The situation of the 2 deceased infants was already important, he stated.
Dr Sunil Arya stated, “A five-day-old newborn had sepsis and it was not healing up. The infant suffered cardiac arrest due to sepsis and died. Another was a premature baby diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia. Such paediatric patient has the tendency of sudden aspiration death syndrome. So, the newborn while aspirating went into stress. We put him on a ventilator to revive, but the newborn died after some time.”
He additionally termed the allegations of 18 deaths reported because of the negligence of the hospital administration ‘baseless’.
Indore ACP VS Sharma stated that they had begun a probe into the incident. the police have despatched the our bodies of the 2 infants for autopsy.
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(with inputs from PTI)
INDORE: At least two new child infants died in Maharaja Tukojirao Holkar (MTH) Hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore within the span of 24 hours, reported PTI.
The kin of the deceased claimed that 18 new child deaths had been reported within the hospital within the span of seven days and demanded a high-level inquiry into the incidents. Meanwhile, Indore district administration and hospital authorities rubbished the allegations and stated that solely 2 infants died in 24 hours. Parents of one of many deceased newborns alleged that their child died after consuming milk given by the hospital administration.
“My daughter gave birth to a baby a few days ago. A nurse administered the baby milk orally after which it died,” claimed Kamal Jatav, one of many protesters, whereas speaking to reporters.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );
But Dr Sunil Arya, in command of the Special Newborn Care Unit, denied that contaminated milk was administered to any child. The situation of the 2 deceased infants was already important, he stated.
Dr Sunil Arya stated, “A five-day-old newborn had sepsis and it was not healing up. The infant suffered cardiac arrest due to sepsis and died. Another was a premature baby diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia. Such paediatric patient has the tendency of sudden aspiration death syndrome. So, the newborn while aspirating went into stress. We put him on a ventilator to revive, but the newborn died after some time.”
He additionally termed the allegations of 18 deaths reported because of the negligence of the hospital administration ‘baseless’.
Indore ACP VS Sharma stated that they had begun a probe into the incident. the police have despatched the our bodies of the 2 infants for autopsy.
ALSO READ: ‘Medical Negligence’: Toddler’s arm amputated at Chennai Rajiv Gandhi GGH; probe ordered
(with inputs from PTI)
