Premature baby dies due to the shortage of ventilator in Nashik hospital
Nashik: A premature baby has died due to lack of ventilator facility in the Nashik Civil Hospital.
A 23-year-old woman from Dhanshet village in the tribal-dominated Peint taluka of the district on Monday night delivered the boy after 32 weeks of pregnancy at a rural hospital in Harsul, Nashik’s civil surgeon Suresh Jagdale said. The woman and the child were later shifted to the Nashik Civil Hospital in the wee hours yesterday and the baby was kept in the special newborn care unit, he said.
Since the child needed to be kept on the ventilator, he was shifted to another hospital at Adgaon near Nashik. But since the ventilator was not available there also, the mother and the premature child returned to the civil hospital, Dr Jagdale said.
As per the demand of the child’s family, the civil hospital approached a private hospital for the newborn’s medical treatment.
However, the baby died yesterday on way to the private hospital, he said.
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