AMRAVATI: Three newborns died after a fire broke out in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Amravati District Women’s Hospital at around 3:30am on Monday.
The fire reportedly broke out following an explosion in a ventilator on the hospital’s third floor, where 39 newborns were undergoing treatment.
Doctors, nurses and other hospital staff immediately evacuated the babies from the NICU after the fire was detected.
Six newborns were shifted to a super-speciality hospital for further treatment, officials said.
The exact cause of the ventilator explosion and the subsequent fire is yet to be ascertained.
(With agency inputs)
