One of the two infants who were hungry at the newborn ICU of the Maharaja Yashwantrao Government Hospital (MyH) in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore, died on Tuesday (September 2, 2025), said officials and gave the cause of the girl’s child’s death.
The incident of the ratio of rats on infants in one of the largest government hospitals made a feeling that made the hospital administration to remove its nursing superintendent from the post and suspend two nursing staff.
Dr. Arvind Ghanghoria, Dean of the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, with whom the hospital is associated, said the company responsible for checking and cleaning pests in hospital-agile companies-byla slapped with a fine of 1 Lakh 1 and demonstration.
Dr. Ghanghoria said two infants – a boy and a girl – were rats bitten on the weekend. The girl who said he suffered pneumonia and was already in a critical condition.
“According to pediatricians, the child had a very low chance of survival due to pneumonia. This child died this morning,” he said, adding that the second child, admitted to the hospital in a critical condition with different congenital deformities, was now stable.
Dr. Ghanghoria, however, insisted that rats were seen in the hospital only in the last three to four days due to heavy rains and broken pipes.
“It was raining in Indore very strongly three to four days ago, and in many parts there was a burden of water, including the hospital. During this time they climbed (rats),” he said, adding that an action was accepted against nursing officials because they did not inform the problem about the administration.
He said that a high -performance committee was also created that explored the incident and submitted its message within one week.
“The company has now been asked to perform pest control work throughout the hospital every seven days every 15 days,” he said.
Dr. Ashok Yadav, a medical superintendent in the hospital, said the first bit of the rat was recorded on Saturday (August 30, 2025) in the hands of the child.
“It was assumed to be a kind of infection, but when a rat was found on the spot on the spot the next day, then we thought it was a rats bite. The child had two places,” Dr. Yadav and argued that measures to solve the problem of rank are usually taken at regular intervals.
“We get pests control and take medication to check rats every 10-15 days, but it’s a very unfortunate incident,” he said.
Dr. Yadav was commissioned to review the whole situation by the hospital administration and took measures to avoid these incidents in the future.
However, the opposition leader in the State Assembly and the MLA Umang Singhar congress claimed that pests were not carried out in the hospital in five years.
Mr. Singhar, who hit the BJP government, said, “Have mercy about the newborn, the government…! Look at the state of my hospital in Indore – the bland newborns are disgusting in Nicu and the BJP government has not even received five years of pests!”
The government should be cheerful on the newborn …!
Look at the condition of my hospital in Indore – Nicu is mounted innocent newborn and the BJP government was unable to obtain a paste for five years!
This is not just negligence, but a massacre. Hospitals are forced to save their lives, but BJP killed them … pic.twitter.com/nlyscmw9
– Umang Singhar (@umangsinghar) September 2, 2025
Congress leader, who said it was not just a negligence, but a “massacre”, said “Hospital is to save lives, but BJP changed them on the day of death. Doctors and the system still lied while rats saw the blood of children.
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Published – 3 September 2025 02:48
