Six tribal infants have died at a state-run hospital in Madhya Pradesh's Shahdol on the intervening night of 13 and 14 January, a senior official said on Tuesday.
A probe has been ordered by Madhya Pradesh Health Minister Tulsi Silawat. "The infants, some of them one-day-old and others two-and-a-half-months-old, died on the intervening night of 13 and 14 January," said Dr Rajesh Pande, Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO), Kushabhau Thakre district hospital.
“The exact cause of their death will be known after investigation. The infants were admitted in the Sick Newborn Care Unit (SNCU) of the hospital in a serious condition, and efforts to save them proved futile.”Dr Rajesh Pande, Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO), Kushabhau Thakre district hospital