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Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday said orders have been issued for conducting safety audit of all hospitals in the state, after 10 newborn babies died in a hospital fire in Bhadara. Thackeray flew in from Mumbai in the afternoon and met parents of the babies who died in the fire on Saturday. He also spoke to hospital and health officials.
The chief minister told reporters that he met the kin of the victims with folded hands. I could not find words to console them, he said. The probe we have announced will also check if the fire was an accident or something which happened as a result of ignoring earlier safety report, Thackeray said.
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Bhandara hospital fire: Parents blame staff for dereliction
Many parents whose newborn babies were among those dead in the Bhandara hospital fire have blamed the staff there for dereliction of duty. Ten babies died after the fire broke out on Saturday at the Special Newborn Care Unit of the four-storeyed district hospital in Maharashtra s Bhandara district town, about 900 km from the state capital Mumbai.
Kin of Geeta and Vishwanath Behere, whose two month-old daughter was among the 10 newborn babies who perished in the blaze, blamed the hospital authorities for dereliction of duty.
They claimed that no doctor or nurse was present in the unit when fire broke out. They blamed the hospital administration for the tragedy and sought action against those responsible.
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Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope on Saturday announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakh each to the kin of the deceased in the fire incident at Bhandara District General Hospital. As many as ten newborn babies died while 7 were rescued after a fire broke out at a hospital in Maharashtra s Bhandara.Â
According to the details, the fire was reported in the Special Newborn Care Unit of the hospital, in the wee hours on Saturday. All the infants were between a month and three months old, a doctor said. The fire broke out in the Bhandara district hospital at around 2 am. There were 17 babies in the unit and seven were rescued.