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Fire broke out at the Maharashtra hospital at around 2 AM.
Ten babies have died due to suffocation after a fire broke out at a hospital in Maharashtra at around 2 AM.
Seventeen babies were admitted at the Special Newborn Care Unit of the hospital in Maharashtra’s Bhandara district, about 900 km from the state capital Mumbai, at the time of incident. Seven of them were rescued by the fire brigade officials.
All the infants were between a month and three months
old, a doctor was quoted as saying by news agency PTI.
“Ten children died in a fire that broke out at Sick Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) of Bhandara District General Hospital at 2 am today. Seven children were rescued from the unit,” Civil Surgeon Dr Pramod Khandate was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
While the cause of the fire is yet to be confirmed, a short circuit is believed to have set off the blaze.
(With inputs from ANI, PTI)
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