In a shocking incident, ten infants — aged between one and three months — were killed in the wee hours of Saturday, when a massive fire broke out in a Government hospital at Bhandara in eastern Maharashtra.
The fire — triggered prima facie by a short-circuit — broke out at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the District General Hospital at Bhandara around 1.30 am. Before long, fire and smoke engulfed the newborn care unit. A nurse who was among the two nurses and one helper present at that time in the NICU raised an alarm, prompting other nurses, doctors and other hospital members to rush to the scene.
