India, March 28 -- The Bombay high court on Thursday set up a committee of medical experts to examine the issue of lack of infrastructure and medical facilities in state-run hospitals in Nanded and Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar.

The court was hearing a suo moto public interest litigation after advocate Mohit Khanna wrote a letter to the chief justice, highlighting deaths of at least 38 patients, including 18 infants, at the government hospital in Nanded and 26 in the state-run hospital in Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar, between September 30 and October 4.

The division bench of chief justice Alok Aradhe and justice MS Karnik, while observing that a long-term solution to the issue of infrastructural development in state-run hospitals would take ...