10 Babies Killed in Hospital Fire in Maharashtra; PM Modi Says Heart-wrenching Tragedy
State health minister Rajesh Tope said Rs 5 lakh would be paid to the family members of each of the deceased infants according to CM Thackeray’s decision.
| 9 Jan 2021 6:55 AM GMT
MUMBAI: In an unfortunate incident, 10 newborn babies were found dead after a fire broke out at a hospital in Maharashtra in the wee hours of January 9.
According to reports, the incident occurred at around 2 AM.
Meanwhile, PM Narendra Modi took to his Twitter handle and wrote, Heart-wrenching tragedy in Bhandara, Maharashtra, where we have lost precious young lives. My thoughts are with all the bereaved families. I hope the injured recover as early as possible.
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2-month-old Girl Victim of Bhandara Hospital Fire Was Set for Discharge
Police officers investigate the scene after a fire broke out at District General Hospital in Bhandara, about 70 km from Nagpur, on January 9, 2021. (AP Photo)
A baby girl who had brought joy to Geeta and Vishwanath Behere (22), despite being born underweight at a private hospital on November 10 last year, was one of the 10 infants who died after a fire broke out in the childcare unit of the state-run Bhandara district hospital in the early hours of Saturday.
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The gloom in the Behere household in Sonzari Tola in Bhandara s Bhojpur area and the pain in the eyes of the people assembled there, especially in that of a 20-year-old tribal woman, is unbearable. The baby daughter of the Beheres was supposed to be discharged in eight days from the Bhandara district hospital, but the fire tragedy has turned their world upside down.
Ten premature babies were killed after a fire broke out in the new-born baby unit of Bhandara’s District General Hospital around 1.30 to 2am on Saturday. (TOI photo)
NAGPUR: Swift actions of Fire Brigade personnel and security guards at the Bhandara district hospital in Maharashtra saved the lives of seven infants admitted at the Special Newborn Care Unit following a fire incident on early Saturday, but unfortunately ten other babies were not that lucky.
Sharing this information with reporters at Nagpur airport, state home minister Anil Deshmukh also said that experts at the National Fire College and the Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT) in Nagpur are investigating the cause of the fire.
Maharashtra Hospital Fire: It is a very painful accident, Devendra Fadnavis said.
Mumbai:
Terming the death of ten newborn babies in a fire in the Bhandara district hospital in Maharashtra a very painful incident, former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday demanded a thorough probe.
Ten newborn babies died after fire broke out in the Special Newborn Care Unit of the hospital in the east Maharashtra city in the early hours on Saturday, doctors said.
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The infants were aged between a month and three months, a doctor said.
Fire incident at the Bhandara District Hospital,where about 10 children lost lives is very painful & disturbing.
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Ten infants were killed as a fire broke out at the neonatal care section of a hospital in Bhandara district of Maharashtra in the wee hours of today, doctors said.
All the infants were between a month and three months old, said District Civil Surgeon Pramod Khandate.
The fire broke out at the Special NewBorn Care Unit of the hospital, about 900km from Mumbai, around 2:00am, he said.
There were 17 babies at the unit and seven were rescued, our New Delhi correspondent reports quoting the civil surgeon.
Another doctor said a nurse first noticed smoke coming out of the neonatal section and alerted doctors and other staff.