In order to address their twin girls’ respiratory problems, Yakoob Mansuri and his spouse traveled to Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College.
Mansuri hurried to the NICU after learning of the fire, broke a window, and saved seven infants, but he was unable to save his twins.
“Even in our worst nightmares, we never thought we would see our babies in the state they were in at the post-mortem house,” Mansuri told reporters.
In the horrific hospital fire in India that killed ten newborns this weekend, a father was able to save seven babies, but he was unable to save his twin daughters.
Yakoob Mansuri, 27, was reportedly outside the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College, where his newborn twin daughters were receiving treatment, in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh state, on Friday, November 15, according to Indian news outlets India Today, National Herald, and The Economic Times.
A mother at the hospital’s sick newborn care unit (SNCU) reportedly screamed about a fire as she was nursing her infant, according to the National Herald.