Wednesday, March 14, 2012

13 babies die at Turkish hospital

A team of doctors is investigating the weekend deaths of 13 newborn babies at a hospital in western Turkey, officials said Monday.

The babies _ all of them premature _ died late Saturday and early Sunday at Izmir's Tepecik hospital.

It was the second such incident in Turkey in three months.

In July, more than two-dozen newborns died at a hospital for high-risk births in the capital, Ankara. Government-appointed doctors investigating the deaths said a shortage of personnel was to blame.

The team of doctors looking into the deaths in Izmir is expected to release preliminary findings Monday, Izmir health department head Mehmet Ozkan …

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