A three-member team of paediatric experts from the Niloufer Hospital in Hyderabad rushed to Tirupati and examined the condition of over 100 infants at the SVRR Government Children’s Hospital here, on Saturday.
Two more children were reported dead in the morning.
A news bulletin issued in the evening said that the condition of 37 infants were critical.
SVRR Hospital superintendent Dr Veeraswamy told this newspaper that the expert team was hectically engaged in studying and monitoring the condition of the infants. The expert team would also submit a report to the government in this regard.
On Saturday, 35 infants from various parts of Chittoor and other districts were admitted to the hospital. They include six babies who were one-day old. A two-day old and a three-year-old baby died of respiratory and undernourishment problems.