As many as 179 children have died in civil hospital in the last three months at Nandurbar in Maharashtra, reported the ANI on Saturday.

According to Nandurbar's Chief Medical Officer, M Sawan Kumar, several factors have contributed to the tragic deaths of these children. Low birth weight, birth asphyxia, sepsis and respiratory diseases have emerged as the primary culprits of the deaths of children, according to the ANI.