Stay on hospital licence cancellation extended by a month

NEW DELHI: An appellate body hearing the Max hospital twin death case on Tuesday extended by a month the stay on a Delhi government order cancelling its licence last month, authorities said. The stay will be in effect till February 8, the next date of hearing, they said. The licence cancellation case pertains to the birth of a premature twin at the hospital in Shalimar Bagh on November 30 last year. Both the babies were declared stillborn by the hospital, one of them wrongly, and handed over to the family allegedly in a polythene bag.