The death toll due to <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/sunstroke-tragedy-ncps-ajit-pawar-demands-registration-of-culpable-homicide-case-against-maharashtra-govt-23281609" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">sunstroke</a> at the 'Maharashtra Bhushan' award event in Navi Mumbai rose to 14 after the death of a 34-year-old woman while seven patients are undergoing treatment, a civic official said on Tuesday.
The deceased included ten women and four men.
"A 34-year-old woman resident of Virar, identified as Swati Vaidya, was declared dead at MGM Hospital in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/search/Vashi-articles" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Vashi</a>, taking the toll to 14," said Panvel Municipal Corporation's Deputy Commissioner Vitthal Dake.
The official revised the number of hospitalised patients to seven from nine stated by him earlier in the day.
"Now, only seven patients remain admitted to different hospitals in Navi Mumbai. Their condition is said to be stable and they are out of danger," Dake added.
He had said that patients are recuperating at MGM Hospital in Kamothe, Vashi civic hospital and Medicover Hospital in Kharghar.
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The award ceremony was held in an open ground in Kharghar area in Raigad district on Sunday and was attended by several lakh people, most of them followers of social worker Appasaheb Dharmadhikari who was conferred with the Maharashtra Bhushan Award by Union Home Minister Amit Shah at the event.
Dharmadhikari has a massive following in the state due to his tree plantation drives, blood donation and medical camps as well as de-addiction work in tribal areas. The Opposition has accused the Maharashtra government of insensitivity and questioned the timing of the function, which concluded around noon, amid a rising temperature.
Maharashtra opposition leader Ajit Pawar on Tuesday demanded the registration of a culpable homicide case against the government over the sunstroke deaths. Under fire from the Opposition, state minister Sudhir Mungantiwar had said the timing was suggested by Dharmadhikari.
"Appasaheb Dharmadhikari had given us the timing and the event was planned accordingly. Politics should not be brought into everything," he said.
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"A 34-year-old woman resident of Virar, identified as Swati Vaidya, was declared dead at MGM Hospital in Vashi, taking the toll to 14," said Panvel Municipal Corporation`s Deputy Commissioner Vitthal Dake

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"A 34-year-old woman resident of Virar, identified as Swati Vaidya, was declared dead at MGM Hospital in Vashi, taking the toll to 14," said Panvel Municipal Corporation's Deputy Commissioner Vitthal Dake

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