[Lifestyle] Nanded tragedy: Mother who lost twins ‘didn’t even see their faces’

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Sangita Manoj Khairwar, 32, has not slept for two days and has been crying relentlessly. She delivered twins on September 28 but lost them during treatment at the Dr Shankarao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital in Nanded on October 2. “I could not take them in my arms and didnt’ even see their faces… I even sold my mangalsutra for their treatment…,” said the distraught mother who is yet to come to terms with the loss. Sangita’s twins were among the 18 infants who died at the state-run hospital in three days since September 30. A total of 24 people, including 12 infants, died in the 24 hours between Sep 30 and Oct 1 at the tertiary care hospital. Also Read | Bombay HC takes suo motu cognizance of deaths at government hospitals in Nanded, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Sangita, wife of Manoj Khairwar, a farmer from Manmad, was eight months and 22 days pregnant when she delivered their twins at a private hospital in Devloor Naka area on September 28. As the newborns required special care, the doctors advised the parents to take them to a bigger hospital.Not getting an ambulance in time, Sangita’s family rushed the twins in an autorickshaw to a public hospital in Sham Nagar that refused to admit the infants, saying they did not have enough room to accommodate them.Left with no option, the family rushed the infants to Dr Shankarao Chavan Government Medical College and Hospital the same day. After two days of treatment, the twins died around 3 am and 8 am on Monday, Sangita’s mother Saraswati Nevhal said.

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