The other newborns at Kamla Nehru Hospital in Madhya Pradesh state, many of them underweight, have been shifted to other wards, state Medical Education Minister Vishvas Kailash Sarang told reporters after the fire was brought under control.
“The other children are being treated,” Sarang later said on Twitter, adding an investigation had been ordered into the fire.
Hospital fires have killed at least 70 people in India this year, including 10 last weekend in Maharashtra, a state neighboring Madhya Pradesh.