Two more cases of infant mortality were reported from Attappady on Thursday, with twins born to an undernourished tribal woman dying soon after birth.
The children, weighing about 700 gm, were born to Selvi and Udayakumar of Kottathara on Tuesday. One of the children died on birth while the second one died on Thursday at the Medical College Hospital, Coimbatore. The deaths have brought to focus the lapses in government machinery despite the Health Department having a software-enabled system to monitor the health parameters of pregnant women.