{"id":6468,"date":"2016-10-16T18:27:34","date_gmt":"2016-10-16T12:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kashmir.today\/?p=6468"},"modified":"2016-10-16T18:27:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T12:57:34","slug":"probe-ordered-rats-nibble-newborn-kishtwar-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=6468","title":{"rendered":"Probe ordered after rats nibble newborn at Kishtwar hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Jammu:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>In a shocking incident, a newborn was nibbled by rats in the maternity ward of a government hospital in Kishtwar with parents claiming that the baby died due to rodent bites.<br \/>\nGhulam Hassan, a resident of the remote Chhatru village of the district, had taken his wife to the hospital where she delivered a baby boy on Thursday, a police officer said today.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the baby was shifted to the maternity ward and when Hassan visited the ward yesterday, he found the baby dead with rat bites visible on his body.<br \/>\n&#8220;There was blood all over the body of the baby and the rats were still nibbling him when Hassan saw this,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nGurjeet Singh, Director of Health Services in Jammu, said that a probe has been launched into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have already ordered an inquiry and the chief medical officer of the district will be conducting the inquiry.<br \/>\nHowever, preliminary inquiry suggest that the baby had already died due to some illness and was nibbled by rats after his death,&#8221; Singh told PTI.<br \/>\nSingh, however, said that if anybody in the health department is found guilty, strict action would be taken against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jammu:\u00a0In a shocking incident, a newborn was nibbled by rats in the maternity ward of a government hospital in Kishtwar with parents claiming that the baby died due to rodent bites. Ghulam Hassan, a resident of the remote Chhatru village of the district, had taken his wife to the hospital where she delivered a baby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-union-territory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}