Overview

• India’s National Human Rights Commission issued notices to Madhya Pradesh’s health secretary and the Indore collector, directing an action taken report within 10 days on alleged rat attacks at MY Hospital’s NICU.
• Hospital administrators suspended nursing staff, removed the nursing superintendent, terminated the pest-control contractor, and imposed a ₹1 lakh penalty, with actions cited against up to six officials.
• Jai Adivasi Yuva Shakti demanded ₹1 crore compensation per family and culpable homicide cases against senior officials, warning of a larger agitation if demands are not met.
• Parents say they were not informed for days and deny abandoning their daughter as visuals circulating show four fingers of one infant’s hand gnawed off; officials maintain the deaths stemmed from severe congenital conditions and infections.
• The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights also sought action from the Indore administration, as probes proceed into the late-August bites and early-September deaths of two newborn girls.