Overview

• On Saturday, a tribal outfit protested for nearly six hours at Indore’s MY Hospital as the bereaved family accused gross negligence and accepted the infant’s body after authorities provided Rs 5 lakh in assistance.
• Two newborn girls bitten by rats in the NICU on August 30–31 died on September 2 and 3, while hospital officials maintain the fatalities were due to severe congenital issues and infections rather than the bites.
• Chief Minister Mohan Yadav ordered a high-level inquiry and a third-party audit, and the medical education commissioner formed a probe panel as the hospital suspended multiple staff, removed the nursing superintendent, and fined the pest-control contractor Rs 1 lakh with blacklisting recommended.
• The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights sought an action taken report within three days, and the State Human Rights Commission requested a detailed report after an NGO demanded an independent investigation and broader infection-control and pest-management audits.
• Officials issued contradictory accounts about when an autopsy was performed on one infant, CCTV and staff accounts indicated rodents in the unit days earlier, and critics rejected hospital claims that outside food contributed to the infestation in a restricted ICU.