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Mangaluru: Close shave for newborn babies as warmer catches fire at NICU of Lady Goschen Hospital

coastaldigest.com web desk
December 10, 2018

Mangaluru, Dec 10: In what could have been a major tragedy, a warmer at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Government Lady Goschen Hospital in the city caught fire on Sunday.

According to sources, there were four newborn babies in the NICU when the incident took place. Apart from them there were five more newborn babies in the adjacent Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital.

As soon as the fire broke out, all the nine babies were taken out and shifted to the Government District Wenlock Hospital. Firefighters from Pandeshwar rushed to the hospital and doused the flames.

Dr Kishori P, in-charge superintendent, Lady Goschen Hospital, said all the babies were safe.

Dr Kishori, said that the warmer was under repair and hence no baby was placed on it on Sunday. “There was interruption in oxygen supply to the warmer due to a technical glitch. When the technicians were working on it, there was a sudden spark. Fortunately, there was no casualty,” she said.

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Abdul Rahman
 - 
Wednesday, 12 Dec 2018

Find the root cause, fix it for ever and implement in all other hospitals. 

gayathri
 - 
Monday, 10 Dec 2018

this is utter negligency, strict action should be taken whomvr is responsible for the same.

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Mangaluru, Jul 7: The residents of Bangle Gudde, Mathadagudde area in Gurupura Gram Panchayat in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, where two teen aged children were buried alive, were shifted to safer places.

District officials said on Tuesday that the residents have been provided temporary shelter in Gurpur school, PU college, and hostels, while few others were shifted to Ashraya centers. Total 40 houses out of 180 houses in this area located in the red zone were damaged due to heavy rain.

If the residents want to stay in the rented house, the revenue department is ready to pay a sum of Rs 2,500 towards rent, official sources said.

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Udupi/Mangaluru, Apr 3: As many as 11 liquor addicts in Udupi and Dakshina Kannada districts have committed suicide, due to non-availability of liquor.

It is said that the District administration, in association with Psychiatrists, have taken the initiative to provide counselling services, along with telemedicine, to the addicts.

Deputy Commissioner G Jagadeesh said on Thursday that arrangements will be made to provide treatments and personal counselling for the liquor addicts.

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