» No One Present, Ignored Safety Norms : Parents of Babies Who Died in Bhandara Fire Blame Hospital
1-MIN READ No One Present, Ignored Safety Norms : Parents of Babies Who Died in Bhandara Fire Blame Hospital
Bhandara: Women stand in a corridor at the Bhandara General Hospital, where a fire broke out, in Bhandara district, Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021. Ten infants died after a fire broke out in the special newborn care unit of hospital in the wee hours of Saturday. (PTI Photo)
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.
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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.
Ten newborns killed in Bhandara hospital fire
Mumbai Mirror / Updated: Jan 10, 2021, 06:00 IST
The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained but could have been due to an electric short circuit
Ten newborns were killed in the early hours of Saturday in a massive fire at a hospital in Maharashtra’s Bhandara district.
“The fire broke out at 2 am today,” said Pramod Khandate, civil surgeon at
Bhandara District General Hospital. Seven of the 17 children in the sick newborn care unit were rescued, Khandate said.
The deceased infants – eight girls and two boys – were aged between one month and three months, hospital sources said.
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.