24, including 12 infants, die in a day at Maharashtra’s Nanded medical college

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Nanded (Maharashtra): At least 24 persons, including 12 infants, have died in the past 24 hours at a government hospital in Maharashtras Nanded allegedly due to a shortage of medicines...

The incident was reported at Shankarao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital here due to the alleged scarcity of medicines...

Dr Shyamrao Wakode, in charge dean of the Medical College, said that the deceased were suffering from various ailments including snake bites, arsenic and phosphorus poisoning etc...

Due to transfers of various staff, there was some difficulty for usWe were supposed to buy medicines from the Haffkine Institute but that also didnt happen.Also, patients come from far off to this hospital and there were many patients whose sanctioned budget also got disturbed he said.. Ex-CM and senior Congress leader from Nanded, Ashok Chavan, said that besides these deaths, another 70 patients, referred from other private hospitals in the district, are reported to be critical...

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