At least eight newborn babies died earlier today due to a lack of incubators in District Headquarters Hospital (DHQ) Sargodha whereas Chief Minister Punjab (CM) Shahbaz Sharif has also taken notice.
Relatives of the infants alleged hospital administration for negligence and claimed that oxygen disruption led to the deaths.
Government Maula Baksh Hospital is the only maternity hospital located at a distance of half a kilometer from DHQ Teaching Hospital due to which most of the children died during their shifting to DHQ Hospital, however, ages of victims were in between 2 to 8 hours.
According to details, DHQ hospital has five incubators and admitted children were 60 but last night, 22 more children in critical situation have been shifted to hospital in two hours.
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