GORAKHPUR’s hospital tragedy has once again repeated itself. This time in another town of Uttar Pradesh Farrukhabad where 49 children have died within a month allegedly due to the lack of oxygen, media reports said on Monday.
According to CNN-News18, an FIR has been filed against the top officials of the government hospital. While 30 children died in the sick newly-born care unit (SNCU) of the hospital alone, 19 others died at the time of delivery or soon after delivery at the hospital, Hindustan Times reported.
The District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar has ordered a magisterial inquiry after 19 of his notices to the hospital authorities went unheeded. The SNCU in-charge, Dr Kailash Kumar, however, claimed children died due to various reasons which included premature births and many others.
the Samajwadi Party (SP) lashed out at the Yogi Adityanath government. “The heath minister must publicly apologise for his failures and the chief minister should ask him to go,” SP leader Ghanshyam Tiwari told CNN-News18.
On 11 August, Gorakhpur’s Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College had grabbed the headlines after more than 60 children, mostly infants, died at the hospital within the span of a week, reportedly due to encephalitis and lack of oxygen.