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Podcast: India News - English
Episode: Not the time for politics but govt has to act: Congress Ashok Chavan on Nanded hospital deaths
Description: Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan said that several infrastructural issues led to the death of 24 patients, including 12 babies, in a period of 24 hours on October 2. Chavan even visited the hospital and reviewed the situation. The Congress leader said that 70 patients are in critical condition in the hospital and the state government needs to take a decision on a war footing to save their lives. Chavan said Dr. Shamrao Wakode, the hospital dean and District Surgeon Nilakant Bhosikar told him that the nurses were transferred but no new appointments were made to the vacant posts and there is also a...