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  • 10/4/2023
Twelve infants died in one day at a hospital in the Indian state of Maharashtra, sparking a political storm on Tuesday (October 3) with opposition politicians accusing the regional government and hospital authorities of negligence. - REUTERS
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00:00 Twelve infants died in one day at a hospital in the Indian state of Maharashtra on Sunday,
00:06 sparking a political storm in the days that followed.
00:10 The fatalities were among 24 deaths at the Shankarachavan Government Hospital in the
00:15 Nanded district, according to hospital officials and local media.
00:19 Opposition politicians accused the regional government and hospital authorities of gross
00:24 negligence on Tuesday.
00:26 Ramesh Chokho Vasudevati's child died at the hospital.
00:30 "We were told that our child had gangrene and surgery was required to remove the infection.
00:35 They asked for our consent and we got scared and signed on the consent form and later his
00:41 dead body came out."
00:44 Another man whose nephew died said the neonatal unit of the hospital was very crowded on Sunday.
00:49 He said there were four to five babies in one incubator, which was otherwise designed
00:54 to hold just one infant.
00:56 The dean of the hospital did not respond to a Reuters request for comment on this allegation
01:01 or opposition accusations of negligence.
01:04 But speaking to ANI news agency earlier on Tuesday, he said the adult patients died of
01:09 various ailments including diabetes, liver failure and kidney failure.
01:15 The Maharashtra government, run by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party and an ally, has launched
01:21 an inquiry into the deaths.
01:22 Here's the state chief minister, Eknath Shinde.
01:26 "The tragedy of Nanded Government Hospital has been taken with utmost sincerity by the
01:32 government and in the morning I had called both the secretaries and obtained preliminary
01:38 information from them.
01:41 There was no shortage of medicine in the hospital and doctor and staff were present there."
01:49 At the Shankaral Chavan Hospital on Tuesday, patients crowded the corridors and pigs roamed
01:54 the premises outside.
01:56 The chaos outlines wider disarray at most government-run hospitals in the world's most
02:00 populous country.
02:02 India's public healthcare system is woefully ill-equipped, plagued by a lack of staff and
02:07 equipment.
02:08 Sunday's deaths were the second such episode in Maharashtra in as many months.
02:12 In August, local media reported that 18 people admitted to a state-run hospital in the Tane
02:18 region died over a 24-hour period.
02:21 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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