As many as nine infants, including five referred from other public hospitals in critical condition, died at the Government Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad in a single day, official sources said. The rest four, who succumbed at the Ahmedabad hospital were all underweight, just like the five from other towns, according to MM Prabhakar, medical superintendent of civil hospital of Ahmedabad. He said the newborns were referred to Ahmedabad in a critical condition and this should not have happened. “The infant who was brought from Lunawada Civil Hospital weighed only 1.1 kg with extreme preterm. He claimed the infants were sent to the Civil Hospital in Ahmedabad only when their condition deteriorated.

Source: Hindustan Times October 29, 2017 03:45 UTC