Seven more patients, four of them children, died late last night at the government hospital in Maharashtra's Nanded that made national headlines yesterday following 24 deaths in 24 hours. This takes the death count in the Shankarrao Chavan Government Hospital in the past 48 hours to 31. Among these 31 patients, 16 were infants or children.
The condition of as many as 71 patients at the hospital is still critical, it is learnt.