On the morning of May 27, 2026, six newborns died within hours of each other in the post-operative ward of Ad-din Medical College Hospital in Dhaka’s Moghbazar.

The deaths of six newborn babies at Ad-din Medical College Hospital in Moghbazar, Dhaka last month are being treated as a crisis when they are, in fact, a symptom of a healthcare system structurally configured to let incidents like this happen.