Kolkata:

As many as 9 new child infants and a two-year-old died in a West Bengal hospital in 24 hours. The infants died on the Murshidabad Medical Faculty and Hospital and a committee has been shaped to research the reason for loss of life, an official stated on Friday.

The preliminary data suggests that the majority of those kids had been malnourished and one among them had a extreme congenital coronary heart illness, the official advised NDTV.

“We weren’t ready to avoid wasting kids as most amongst them had been malnourished, had congenital illnesses and had been born underweight, weighing about 500 gm or 600 gm,” Amit Kumar Dah, the Medical Superintendent cum Vice Principal of the Murshidabad Medical Faculty and Hospital, advised NDTV.

Remedy in such instances is time-bound and we didn’t have that point, Mr Dah stated, including that the Jangipur Sub-Divisional Hospital is present process renovation and all their instances from there are being referred to the Murshidabad Medical Faculty & Hospital.

The sufferers had been first taken to Jangipur after which got here to us, which took greater than 5 hours, he stated.

“If you happen to do not deal with such sufferers within the first 4 to 5 hours then it will get troublesome to save lots of them,” he stated.

Youngsters weighing 800 gms or 1 kg can nonetheless be saved however saving a toddler weighing 500 gm is a big problem, Mr Dah stated.

He stated that they’ve simply 130 beds for the 300 sufferers they’re treating as they’re additionally admitting sufferers from different districts.

“We now have to confess all sufferers on humanitarian grounds,” he stated, including that they’ve additionally saved about 900 kids.