Maharashtra News: 40+people, including 12 newborns, die within a day at Nanded govt hospital due to lack of medicine
Latest update - मृतकों की संख्या बढ़ती जा रही है 24 से बडकर 40+ मौत हो चुकी हैअब तक ।

A case of death of 24 patients, including 12 newborns, has been reported in the last 24 hours in a government hospital in Nanded, Maharashtra.
According to media reports , the dean of the hospital blamed the shortage of medicines and hospital staff for this.
Dr Shyamrao Wakode of Govt Medical College Nanded said, "Around 12 children died in the last 24 hours...12 adults also died due to various ailments (snake bites, arsenic and phosphorus poisoning etc.). Due to transfers of various staff, there was some difficulty for us...We were supposed to buy medicines from the Haffkine Institute but that also didn't happen....Also, patients come from far off to this hospital and there were many patients whose sanctioned budget also got disturbed..."
Authorities at the Shankar Rao Chavan Government Hospital in Nanded said that the newborns, six boys and six girls, died due to insufficient medical resources.
Severely impacting survival chances, the lack of drugs meant that common and preventable illnesses took a deadly turn. Moreover, 12 adults died due to a variety of ailments, some of them as simple yet deadly as snake bites.
The hospital's dean explained that the hospital is simply a "tertiary-level care centre", but patients come from all over because it is the only health care facility within 70-80 kilometres. The number of patients admitted to the hospital sometimes exceeds the institute's budget, causing a medicine shortage, he noted. It was made even more difficult by the fact that many hospital employees were transferred.
"EX-CM and senior Congress leader from Nanded, Ashok Chavan, said that besides these deaths, another 70 patients, referred from other private hospitals in the district, are reported to be ‘critical’. Replacement of a lot of nurses who were transferred has not been given," Chavan said as reported by news agency ANI.


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