Bhandara hospital fire: Leaders condole infants’ death; demand probe, action against those responsible

In a major incident, as many as ten infants died on Saturday after a fire broke out at a hospital in Maharashtra. The incident was reported from the Special Newborn Care Unit of a hospital in the Bhandara district of the state, at nearly 2 am. According to a doctor’s statement, all infants were between a month and three months old. There were 17 babies in the unit and seven were rescued, he added.