5 babies die in India hospital

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Specializes in peds,picu,nicu.

I just saw this on CNN, such a sad story which could have been prevented.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/01/31/india.fire/index.html

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How aweful! :crying2: Can you imagine! I thank goodness that we have strict regulations for our equipment and hospitals in this country. We really take it for granted.

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Specializes in Maternal - Child Health.

I didn't understand the cause of the fire. Did a phototherapy unit short out?

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Specializes in NICU, adult med-tele.

How sad:crying2:

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I didn't understand the cause of the fire. Did a phototherapy unit short out?

I found this article with more detail. Very disturbing!

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/5_infants_perish_in_Punjab_hospital_incubator_fire/articleshow/4056402.cms

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Specializes in NICU, Post-partum.
How aweful! :crying2: Can you imagine! I thank goodness that we have strict regulations for our equipment and hospitals in this country. We really take it for granted.

I agree. My mouth about dropped open when I read the part about how neither a nurse or a physician was even in the room.

It must have been a bad place because they were also using heaters that plugged up.

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Specializes in Maternal - Child Health.

Thanks for the article, dawngloves. Although I wish I hadn't read it. How horrific!

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Specializes in Community, OB, Nursery.

Oh my goodness....I cannot imagine that horror, nor the grief of those parents. How sad. :(

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That is so sad :crying2:

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Specializes in NICU.

That is horrible. I can't believe that a "senior doctor" ordered the the nursing station be moved away from the nursery. Seriously!!! How could there have been NO ONE in the nursery at the time??? This totally could have been prevented.

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