Overview
- In Mumbai a newborn male was found crying on the bathroom floor outside Ward No. 40 of Rajawadi Hospital and was rescued, treated and moved to the neonatal intensive care unit where he is reported stable.
- Tilak Nagar Police have registered a case in the Mumbai incident, are scanning CCTV from the hospital and are searching for an unidentified woman suspected of abandoning the baby after an apparent undocumented delivery.
- In Indore the body of an infant estimated to be about three months old was found in a bathroom near the emergency ward at Maharaja Yeshwantrao (MY) Hospital and has been sent for post-mortem as police check CCTV and question hospital staff.
- Preliminary checks at Rajawadi showed no delivery entry in the hospital register for the period in question, and both hospitals face scrutiny over how security guards and CCTV failed to prevent or detect the incidents promptly.
- The Indore case revives earlier concerns about neonatal safety at MY Hospital, including reported rat-bite deaths in September 2025, prompting wider questions about hygiene, staffing and management at some public facilities.