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An inquiry conducted after the fire found several lapses in the Amravati hospital’s fire-safety preparedness.
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Three newborns were killed after a fire broke out at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of a government hospital in Maharashtra’s Amravati district, officials said.
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While the hospital authorities had shifted all three infants to Jabalpur Medical College for specialised treatment, one of them died later.
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Attributing the death to an illness, the district administration, however, claimed that the baby was not injured in the fire.
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While it can accommodate only 18 babies, at the time of the Friday night fire that claimed the lives of 10 newborns, the NICU had 49 inside.
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Preterm birth is a nutritional emergency; these babies have high nutritional demand. But, despite medical advances in NICU care, it is quite challenging to achieve weight gain in these babies, said a doctor
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"NICU is like an artificial womb where hardly any visitors are allowed as it will lead to infection", said Dr. Parimala V Thirumalesh

