Five more babies died at Bardhaman Medical College and Hospital, days after death of 13 babies were reported from the premier hospital in West Bengal district but the authorities maintained that there was nothing unusual in the alarming death figures which was sited as normal. A senior hospital official said that three babies lost their lives in the paediatric ward and two in the nursery where new borns are kept since Saturday, due to low weight. Principal Dr. Choudhary said that he hasinformation that the five babies have lost their lives within 24 hours while one of them is a stillborn baby.
Dr. Choudhary added that it can be very well asserted that the reason for such baby deaths is due to their low weight. But the hospital always tries to avert a single such incident and they are monitoring the situation. Four days back 12 babies had died at the hospital and one on Thursday and the hospital authorities had claimed the one-to-three days old babies were underweight and suffering from diseases like jaundice, encephalitis and septicemia.
News reported by AR for Newvision
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