One of the two infants who had been gnawed upon in the Neonatal ICU of the the government-run Maharaja Yashwantrao Hospital (MYH) in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore died on Tuesday (September 2, 2025), officials said, adding the cause of the girl child’s death was pneumonia.

The incident of rat attack on infants in one of the State’s largest government hospitals has created a sensation, prompting the hospital administration to remove its nursing superintendent from the post and suspend two nursing staff.