Nanded Deaths News Today

“These tragic deaths must serve as a wake-up call for the politicians as well as people of Maharashtra, prompting total overhaul of health policy and increased political commitment to public health,” Dr Shukla.

Demanding an impartial CBI probe into the spate of deaths in government hospitals across the state, former Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Friday asked the Maharashtra government who is responsible for the Nanded deaths.

Sangita and Manoj have a three-year-old son, who was born at the same Dr Shankarao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital during the lockdown.

Six more patients, including two premature babies, died from Oct 2 to 3

The woman’s father stated that Dr Wakode, the hospital dean, abused him when he told him there was no doctor or nurse to attend to his daughter, whose condition was deteriorating.

Records of Dr Shankarrao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital in Nanded indicated that 42 % posts of medical staff in paediatrics, general medicine, psychiatry, and orthopaedics departments remained vacant.

The state government, which has come under pressure for the deaths, is likely to tell the court that private hospitals near the medical college and hospital at Nanded had few staff due to back-to-back holidays.

Pigs roamed as relatives of patients went about their chores - some brushing their teeth, some washing utensils. The scene was from the hospital in central Maharashtra where 31 patients had died in a span of 48 hours.

Nanded hospital records indicate that 42 percent of medical personnel positions, spanning departments such as paediatrics, general medicine, psychiatry, orthopaedics and others, remain vacant.

The deaths have exposed the state’s flawed medicine procurement system as a shortage of medicines is being cited as one of the reasons for the tragedy.