ISLAMABAD: The Punjab government admitted before the Supreme Court on Thursday its shortcomings in providing proper health facilities but said that poor health of mothers had also contributed to the recent high number of infant deaths at the DHQ Hospital in Sargodha. “It was observed that most of the children at DHQ Teaching Hospital, Sargodha, had died due to prematurity, low birth weight, septicaemia (blood poisoning) and birth asphyxia (suffocation),” said a report submitted to the court on behalf of the Punjab...
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