Overview

• Two newborns died this week at Indore’s Maharaja Yashwantrao Hospital, where officials attributed the deaths to pneumonia and septicemia as media reports alleged rats bit the infants in the ICU.
• Hospital deputy superintendent Dr. Jitendra Verma said one infant had severe congenital anomalies and septicemia and died after surgery, adding the family declined a postmortem.
• Congress leader Rahul Gandhi condemned the Indore cases, calling them straight murder and blaming the BJP-led state government for negligence.
• In Gwalior, 19-year-old Krishna Srivas died after a road accident referral to Jai Arogya Hospital as relatives alleged negligent care, then said postmortem staff demanded Rs 500 for a blue-sheet shroud before releasing the body.
• JAH superintendent Dr. Sudhir Saksena said department heads have been asked for written replies on the negligence and shroud-fee allegations, while in Himachal Pradesh one body was recovered in the Kullu landslide and teams are searching for five missing with three injured hospitalized.