{"id":89872,"date":"2026-05-28T16:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89872"},"modified":"2026-05-28T16:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T16:10:47","slug":"bangladesh-investigates-deaths-of-six-newborns-in-sweltering-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/28\/bangladesh-investigates-deaths-of-six-newborns-in-sweltering-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh investigates deaths of six newborns in sweltering heat"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA24gVFu.img?w=768&h=512&m=6\" alt=\"Dhaka is facing a severe heatwave (AFP\/Getty)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Six newborn babies died within hours of each other in a private hospital in the Bangladeshi capital\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/dhaka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Dhaka<\/a> on Wednesday, prompting an investigation into whether a failure of air conditioning\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/bangladesh-investigates-deaths-of-six-newborns-in-sweltering-heat\/ar-AA24gBnb?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a1865731cc549fd95af6e4c1a77479d&ei=52\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Six newborn babies died within hours of each other in a private hospital in the Bangladeshi capital\u00a0Dhaka on Wednesday, prompting an investigation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/baby-feet-black-and-white.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89873,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89872\/revisions\/89873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}