2nd baby dies after rat bite at Indore hospital; doctors claim blood infection as cause of death

INDORE: (Sep 4) A second newborn girl, bitten by a rat at the government-run Maharaja Yashwantrao Hospital (MYH) here, has died, with the administration claiming the cause of death as blood infection and not the rat bite.

The baby died on Wednesday following which the body was handed over to the family without post-mortem as per the wish of her relatives, a senior hospital official said.

Earlier, another newborn bitten by rat died at the hospital on Tuesday.

Source: PTI News

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