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When the parking of this three-storey hospital caught fire, the power went out due to short circuit etc. In such a situation, the innocent children stopped getting oxygen. In such a situation, it is believed that the innocent children had already died. Due to power failure, the oxygen supply system stopped working. After this, the hospital was filled with smoke. It is also being said that some innocent children were burnt. Shahdara district police officials say that it will be known only after the post-mortem whether the innocent children died due to burning or lack of oxygen or suffocation due to smoke.
A senior police officer of Shahdara district said that all the children were on oxygen. Among the innocent children admitted in the children’s ICU unit of Baby Care New Born Hospital, some were two days old, some eight, some 10 and some 15 days old. These children were kept in the ICU because they had some disease at the time of birth. Also, these children were born premature. Due to this reason also they were kept in the ICU. It is being told that the condition of many children was already critical.
In the initial investigation, the police found out that if the child gets sick as soon as it is born or if the child is born premature, then it costs a lot to keep the child in a good private hospital. Private hospitals charge 20 to 25 thousand rupees a day. There is no place to keep such children in government hospitals. In such a situation, Baby Care Hospital had left its agents at various places. These agents would lure the parents of the children by promising to get such children admitted in other private hospitals at a cheaper rate. Falling prey to this greed, the families would bring the children to Baby Care New Born Hospital. Here, the rent for keeping a child was 10 to 15 thousand rupees per day.