India - 10 babies killed, 16 injured, 45 rescued as fire rips through NICU in Jhansi city, 15 Nov 2024

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Ugh it keeps getting worse!
 
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Some of the lucky ones.

Source: Jhansi hospital fire: 10 babies dead, 3 charred bodies unidentified - The Tribune
 
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Wonderful news! Kuldeep, who rescued at least three babies (I've seen some articles say five or six) but couldn't find his own child has been reunited with his son. Another woman had rescued him and she had admitted him to hospital herself, he had burns to his hand which are being treated.

www.thehindu.com

Newborn babies killed in Jhansi hospital fire: Tears and chaos at Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College

Jhansi hospital fire: Tragic fire at Neonatal ICU in Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College kills 10 infants, survivors recount harrowing ordeal, families demand DNA tests.
www.thehindu.com www.thehindu.com
 
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iamshadow21 said:
Wonderful news! Kuldeep, who rescued at least three babies (I've seen some articles say five or six) but couldn't find his own child has been reunited with his son. Another woman had rescued him and she had admitted him to hospital herself, he had burns to his hand which are being treated.

www.thehindu.com

Newborn babies killed in Jhansi hospital fire: Tears and chaos at Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College

Jhansi hospital fire: Tragic fire at Neonatal ICU in Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College kills 10 infants, survivors recount harrowing ordeal, families demand DNA tests.
www.thehindu.com www.thehindu.com
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Oh that is wonderful news!!
 
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Harriett_Eva said:
Oh that is wonderful news!!
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Yeah, for all the horror, there is a lot of heroism, too. A lot of folks who stepped up and saved as many of these precious kids as they possibly could. And the amount who were saved by strangers to them seems to be the vast majority.

MOO
 
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indianexpress.com

‘Everyone was rushing the children out of NICU’: What happened on night of fire at Jhansi hospital

According to district administration and college authorities, it’s their prompt response that helped save the lives of infants but families of the newborns are devastated and angry, accusing the administration of negligence.
indianexpress.com indianexpress.com

This article has a very good timeline/breakdown of events. It sounds like the electrical cause is supported by CCTV footage. It also confirms that the evacuation of infants was throttled by medical staff, and then when the fire intensified, essentially became a free for all with families forcing their way in past staff to save infants, and civilians and medical staff smashing windows to evacuate as many children as they could snatch from the encroaching flames out the openings. The latter probably saved lives that would otherwise have been lost, but led to difficulties because infants had been separated from their identifying documentation and caused great distress and confusion for those seeking to find their babies, or for those staff who needed to render appropriate treatment.

MOO
 
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iamshadow21 said:
indianexpress.com

‘Everyone was rushing the children out of NICU’: What happened on night of fire at Jhansi hospital

According to district administration and college authorities, it’s their prompt response that helped save the lives of infants but families of the newborns are devastated and angry, accusing the administration of negligence.
indianexpress.com indianexpress.com

This article has a very good timeline/breakdown of events. It sounds like the electrical cause is supported by CCTV footage. It also confirms that the evacuation of infants was throttled by medical staff, and then when the fire intensified, essentially became a free for all with families forcing their way in past staff to save infants, and civilians and medical staff smashing windows to evacuate as many children as they could snatch from the encroaching flames out the openings. The latter probably saved lives that would otherwise have been lost, but led to difficulties because infants had been separated from their identifying documentation and caused great distress and confusion for those seeking to find their babies, or for those staff who needed to render appropriate treatment.

MOO
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Thank you for the summary - the previous article also mentioned the desire for DNA tests to confirm identity-
 
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Harriett_Eva said:
Thank you for the summary - the previous article also mentioned the desire for DNA tests to confirm identity-
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Yeah, I think some of the families are really concerned their children had been misidentified.

One woman who lost her child had been told they'd identified the children by their ID tags, but she pointed out that an (unrelated) child she personally had rescued and taken to hospital had no ID tag at all and she'd had to register the child under her own name. (I do think this could have been Kuldeep's baby - the stories align.)

MOO
 
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iamshadow21 said:
Yeah, I think some of the families are really concerned their children had been misidentified.

One woman who lost her child had been told they'd identified the children by their ID tags, but she pointed out that an (unrelated) child she personally had rescued and taken to hospital had no ID tag at all and she'd had to register the child under her own name. (I do think this could have been Kuldeep's baby - the stories align.)

MOO
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Such a chaotic situation- so difficult for everyone- I am so glad that Kuldeep’s child was found and identified!
 
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Another infant has died. The doctor is linking it to his prematurity, not the fire. (I don't think the fire would have helped, though.) As a child born so early (seven months gestation) and reportedly being so frail, I wonder if this child was one of the very few rescued from the higher needs room.

www.thehindu.com

Jhansi Hospital Fire: Infant rescued from Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College passes away

Jhansi hospital fire: Tragic death of premature infant in Jhansi hospital fire sparks NHRC investigation, leaving 10 newborns dead and 16 injured.
www.thehindu.com www.thehindu.com
 
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timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Jhansi hospital fire: Another infant dies, toll rises to 12 - Times of India

The death toll from a fire incident at Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College in Jhansi has risen to 12 after another infant succumbed to injuries. 39 infants were rescued from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) during the fire on Friday night. Authorities are investigating the cause of the...
timesofindia.indiatimes.com timesofindia.indiatimes.com
 
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iamshadow21 said:
www.etvbharat.com

Jhansi Fire Tragedy: Probe Team Finds Short Circuit Due To Overload As Prime Cause

A special investigation team from Lucknow reached Jhansi on Monday under the chairmanship of Kinjal Singh, director general of medical education and training, for inspection.
www.etvbharat.com www.etvbharat.com
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Ugh…
“The team said the extension chord caught fire first and it spread to the nearby ventilator leading to the tragedy. An earlier investigation by the divisional commissioner and DIG also pointed at short-circuit.”

Previous articles said NICU was over capacity… looks like that might have lead to an overloaded cord- so preventable :(
 
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Harriett_Eva said:
Ugh…
“The team said the extension chord caught fire first and it spread to the nearby ventilator leading to the tragedy. An earlier investigation by the divisional commissioner and DIG also pointed at short-circuit.”

Previous articles said NICU was over capacity… looks like that might have lead to an overloaded cord- so preventable :(
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I think there was so much here that wasn't done that should have been because they were moving to the new unit in a matter of weeks. The expired extinguishers, the poor quality equipment. How much should have been repaired or replaced that just wasn't? The new unit had been under construction for ten years.

I don't fault the unit staff for taking on too many children. Those kids would have likely died shortly after birth without help. But I do fault those who didn't maintain the equipment, and I do fault the staff who throttled the evacuation of children. They should have been hustling babies out of there the moment the fire started, and they didn't.

MOO
 
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iamshadow21 said:
I think there was so much here that wasn't done that should have been because they were moving to the new unit in a matter of weeks. The expired extinguishers, the poor quality equipment. How much should have been repaired or replaced that just wasn't? The new unit had been under construction for ten years.

I don't fault the unit staff for taking on too many children. Those kids would have likely died shortly after birth without help. But I do fault those who didn't maintain the equipment, and I do fault the staff who throttled the evacuation of children. They should have been hustling babies out of there the moment the fire started, and they didn't.

MOO
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Oh my goodness, I’d read the new ward was under construction, but hadn’t logged it was for 10 years, those poor people, families, nurses, all of it
 
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