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| Eight infants die overnight in Sargodha hospital | |
| 2014-11-20 | |
| [DAWN] Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... on Wednesday took notice of the deaths of eight infants who died overnight in an incubator ward in District Teaching Hospital Sargodha.
He also said that their deliveries were performed by midwives who were unable to provide frontline medical care that is imperative for a newborn baby. The spokesperson added that 26 infants had been admitted in the hospital out of which 10 are said to be at death's door. The spokesperson furthermore said the hospital only had a capacity of 25 nursery beds, but as there was no hospital of its kind in the district, it often had to deal with over admission. Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... a three-member team has been constituted by the chief minister to probe the deaths, with instructions to submit a report within 24 hours. A report published in 2012 found that Pakistain ranks fourth globally in terms of the number of preterm births, with India on the top, followed by China and Nigeria as third and fourth, respectively. | |
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