Rats nibble newborn’s feet, fingers at Indore Hospital; MP rights commission seeks report

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oi-Madhuri Adnal

Indore, May 19: The Madhya Pradesh Human Rights Commission (MPHRC) has sought a report from senior government officials over the incident of rats nibbling a newborn’s feet in a state-run hospital in Indore, an official said on Tuesday.

Taking cognisance of media reports about the incident, MPHRC chairman Justice Narendra Kumar Jain directed Indore’s divisional commissioner and the joint director of the health department to submit a report within the next 15 days, a commission official said.

The incident of rats gnawing at the feet of a newborn at government-run Maharaja Yeshwantrao (MY) hospitals nursery care unit for newborn babies was confirmed by the facility’s superintendent Dr Pramendra Thakur on Monday.

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