{"id":126671,"date":"2024-11-16T23:04:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T16:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126671"},"modified":"2024-11-16T23:04:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T16:04:19","slug":"ten-newborns-killed-in-hospital-fire-in-jhansi-northern-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126671","title":{"rendered":"Ten newborns killed in hospital fire in Jhansi northern India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">At least 10 newborns have died in a fire at a hospital in northern India after a blaze broke out in the neonatal ward.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Chaos and panic ensued as the fire spread, relatives of the infants have told local media, with parents breaking windows to enter the ward, scrambling to reach their children.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">\u201cThe nurses were pushing people out, but those who managed to get in grabbed any child they could,\u201d a grieving grandmother told ANI news agency.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Staff at the hospital in Jhansi district in Uttar Pradesh state were able to rescue 44 infants, but at least 16 are in a critical condition, authorities said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Three of the ten babies who died have yet to be identified, leaving some parents unsure about what happened to their children.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Santoshi, a new mother, is still looking for her 10-day-old baby. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;When the fire broke out, I couldn&#8217;t go inside to rescue my baby. How could I? When no one was able to get inside, how could anyone hand me my baby?\u201d she told ANI news agency.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The blaze on Friday night at Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College Hospital is being blamed on an electrical fault.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Pictures from the scene showed anguished parents outside the hospital.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Indian media reported that the fire first sparked in the intensive care unit of the infants&#8217; ward at around 22:30 local time (17:00 GMT).<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Local officials believe an electrical short circuit or another fault in a machine used to increase the level of oxygen in the ward caused the fire.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posted a message online calling the deaths &#8220;heart-wrenching&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;My deepest condolences to those who have lost their innocent children in this. I pray to God to give them the strength to bear this immense loss,&#8221; he wrote.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Officials from the Uttar Pradesh state government have announced compensation of 500,000 rupees (\u00a34,600; $5,900) for the bereaved families.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">State deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak said a safety review of the public hospital had been carried out in February, and a fire drill as recently as June.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">This is the second prominent hospital fire in India in six months where newborns have been killed. In May, <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c722zv2r64do\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">six babies were killed<!-- --><\/a> in a fire at a private neonatal facility in Delhi.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/ckglzvq294eo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 10 newborns have died in a fire at a hospital in northern India after a blaze broke out in the neonatal ward. Chaos and panic ensued as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=126671\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}