Rajasthan: Newborns die at Govt hospital after warmers get overheated
Jaipur: In an unfortunate incident, two newborns have died due to overheating in a warmer in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of a government-run hospital in Rajasthan's Bhilwara district. After an uproar by the family members of the victim's newborns, the action on contractual employees was taken, and an inquiry committee was constituted.
The newborns, a girl, and a boy, were in the warmer when overheating incident took place in the wee hours on Wednesday at the Mother and Child hospital of the Mahatma Gandhi (MG) government hospital.
While the 21-day-old baby girl died soon after the incident, the baby boy died on Thursday, police said. A hospital official said that the services of two contractual nursing staffers who were on duty at the time of the incident were terminated with immediate effect and an inquiry committee was formed.
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