Following the death of 78 newborn babies at Thane’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), as reported by MiD DAY (‘78 newborns die at Thane civil hospital in 7 months’), doctors at the hospital gave us a detailed report clarifying the reasons behind these deaths. The report states that 588 babies were admitted in the SNCU (Special Newborn Care Unit) of NICU since January 2012 and out of these many critical cases only 78 babies could not be saved.

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