24 patients, including 12 children, passed away in 24 hours

At a Maharashtra government hospital...

A government hospital in the Nanded region of Maharashtra experienced at least 24 deaths in less than 24 hours, including 12 newborn babies…

Authorities at Shankarrao Chavan Government Hospital said on Monday that a lack of medicines was to blame for the deaths. Six boys and six girls were among the 12 youngsters who died, according to the dean of the hospital. The twelve adults who passed away, he said, did so as a result of various illnesses, including snake bites.

The hospital, he said, is simply a "tertiary-level care center," yet patients go from various locations to receive care there because it is the only hospital within a 70- to 80-kilometer radius. 

He continued, "There was a lack of drugs since the number of patients admitted to the hospital often exceeds the institute's budget. Additionally, the fact that some hospital employees were transferred made it particularly challenging.

The hospital was meant to purchase the medications from a company called Haffkine, the dean further claimed, but this did not occur. He claimed that after the medications were purchased from nearby shops, they were administered to the patients.

The father of a newborn who passed away called the hospital's actions "negligence" and claimed that no other child should experience what he did.

Another parent, whose newborn had been taken to the hospital four days earlier, complained that the staff was preventing them from seeing their kid. The father complained to India Today TV that "we don't know whether our child is fine or not, and the doctors are not treating us properly."

Opposition criticizes BJP:

Rahul Gandhi, the leader of the Congress, charged that the BJP had spent "thousands of crores of rupees on its publicity" but had not contributed any funds to the purchase of medications for children. Gandhi also sent his sympathies to the surviving family members in a post on X.