The death of 24 patients within 24 hours in a government hospital in Maharashtra's Nanded comes less than two months after 18 patients died in Thane.
In the 24-hour period between August 12 and 13, a total of 18 patients had died in Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Hospital in Kalwa in Thane district. 12 of the patients who died were above the age of 50.
Thane civic commissioner Abhijit Bangar had then said that the patients were suffering from complications due to kidney stones, chronic paralysis, ulcers, pneumonia, kerosene poisoning, and septicemia among other ailments.
3 more deaths were reported in the hospital on August 14.
The Hindu reported officials as saying that the hospital was treating 600 patients compared to its capacity of 500 because the Thane Civil Hospital located nearby was being renovated.
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