Newborn deaths: ADM visits MGM Hospital to take stock of situation

Jamshedpur | Sunday | 12th November, 2017

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"Due to the ongoing construction work on the campus, the underground pipeline has been damaged and this has resulted stoppage of water supply in many parts of the complex. As of now, only 25% of the total water supply is available to us," said Bhushan.He added that the shortage of manpower was also taken up during the meeting. The bureaucrat had then convened a meeting of the district administration and had drawn up a roadmap to improve the hospital's administration. However, despite the efforts 60 infants had died in MGMMCH between September and October. JAMSHEDPUR: Additional district magistrate (law and order) Subodh Kumar visited the government-run Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College and Hospital (MGMMCH) on Saturday to take stock of the sitiation at the hospital where several new-born babies died recently.Kumar held detailed discussions with hospital superintendent B Bhushan on all the issues relating to the ongoing projects pertaining to expansion of the healthcare centre..