HINDIPAGE ONLINE

Amritsar Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has ordered an inquiry into the deaths of four new-born babies in a Ludhiana Hospital he said those found negligent "would not be spared".process of delivery, badal said he has asked the officers to ascertain the causes and circumstances which led to the incident and submit the inquiry report at the earliest.

 Badal said that if laxity was found on the part of any public servant in dealing with this incident, he/she "would not be spared and brought to book as per the law of the land."

Three days after the inauguration of a mother child wing at the hospital, four new-borns died yesterday during the time of delivery, which the families alleged were carried out by

Ludhiana Hospital head Subash Batta said that four kids died at the time of delivery however, the hospital has denied any negligence on its part

The families alleged that in the absence of the gynaecologist, the deliveries were facilitated by class IV employees, a claim which was denied by the doctors.

Hospital's gynaecologist head Alka Mittal said that the pregnant women were being shifted to the old wing of the hospital as the Operation Theatre in the new mother-child wing was not functional.