At least nine more infants have died in the last two days of December at the JK Lon hospital here, taking the death toll to 100 for the month. The death of 10 children at the government-run hospital during a 48-hour period on December 23-24 had triggered opposition criticism. Hospital authorities, however, said the number of deaths reported at the health facility in 2019 was less than 1,005 in 2018.
