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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.

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Tessa Paige Varani came into the world after just two pushes —
in her parents’ 2009 Honda Accord.

“We might have to keep the car until she’s of legal age to
drive,” Christine Varani of Newtown Township joked Wednesday from
her hospital bed at Capital Health in Hopewell, N.J.

The youngest Varani was the first Capital Health baby born
outside the general entrance of the newly opened facility, said Don
MacNeill, a spokesman for the hospital.

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