Malda, Jan. 18: Eleven babies have died in the district hospital here in the past 36 hours with some parents alleging that senior doctors were on leave at the time their children were battling for life.
The charge has been denied by the authorities of the Malda District Hospital which has been recently upgraded to a medical college. The hospital said all the babies had been brought in a critical state and most of them were born premature and underweight.

