Jhansi Hospital Fire: Young Father Saved Many Babies, But Lost His Twin Girls | India News – Times of India

JHANSI: Yakoob Mansuri, in his twenties, was a hero to other people’s children on Friday evening. They will never know about his own newborn twin girls.
The young food vendor from Hamirpur had been sleeping outside for a week neonatal intensive care unit by Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College where his two newborn twin daughters had been admitted. Yakoob and his wife Nazma took turns keeping watch over the twins.
When the fire broke out on Friday evening, Yakoob broke the window and entered the unit to save as many babies as he could. But his two daughters were not there. The bodies of the twin girls were identified later on Saturday. Nazma and Yakoob sat outside the hospital all day, their eyes full of disbelief and sadness.
Similarly, Sanjana Kumari, who had just given birth to her first child, mourned a loss that no one should ever have to endure. “My baby was burned in front of my eyes and I watched helplessly. The hospital’s negligence destroyed my dreams. I couldn’t even hold my child,” she said, the pain still palpable.
Santoshi Devi from Jalaun took her baby to the hospital after complications during delivery. But when the fire broke out, he became lost in the chaos. His body was identified Saturday. “I heard screaming, but my baby was gone,” she said.
The hospital staff did not act in time, say relatives of the children
She gave birth eleven days ago to a child she no longer has. “I heard noises and ran away, but how could I save my child? No one told us what was going on,” she said.
Sonu and Sanjana, from Lalitpur, talked about their premature son, who was being treated for breathing problems. “We were told not to feed him, so we rested for a while. By the time we got back to the hospital, the fire had destroyed the ward,” Sanjana said. “We did everything we could, but in the end he was taken away from us,” Sonu said. His brother, Parsuram, said, “We sold everything we had, took out loans, all in the hope that our son would survive.”
Niranjan Maharaj of Lalitpur identified his grandchild’s body from the name tag. “He was burned in the fire,” he said, claiming that hospital staff failed to intervene in time.