Expressing grief over the deaths, Birla stressed on proper monitoring in the hospital. I have spoken to the hospital management and got a report on the matter. Whatever facts come out, I would discuss it with the state government, the MP told the media after the meeting.
Hospital Superintendent Dulara said a newly constructed 12-bed NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) level-3 ward, which was ready to go functional, was made operational on Friday with 10 nursing staff.
Kota District Collector Ujjawal Rathore, who also attended the meeting, said some pieces of equipment at the hospital were certainly reported to be lying unused, but their number is not considerable .
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Rajasthan: Three more infants die at Kota hospital, Oppn hits out
The opposition BJP has slammed the state government over the deaths, with deputy leader of opposition Rajendra Rathore terming the incident as a ‘gross negligence’ of the health department. December 12, 2020 3:13:01 am
While Tripura s neo-natal mortality was 13.2 per 1,000 live births in 2015-16, it has risen to 22.9 in the latest survey.(Representational Image)
Three more newborns died at the state-run JK Lon Hospital in Kota on Friday, bringing the number of such fatalities to 12 in the last two days at the facility, officials said.
Nine newborns, all of them between one and four days old, died at the hospital on Thursday, a year after the same facility hit national headlines over deaths of an unusual number of infants.