16 deaths occurred a day after the State Health Minister Dr Siddharth Nath Singh launched 'Mission Indradhanush (Rainbow) campaign' to save children from deadly diseases at an early age.
Even as Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his health minister claim that all is well, 16 more children, out of which 10 were infants, died in Gorakhpur's Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College in the last 24 hours.
Ironically, these 16 deaths occurred a day after the State Health Minister Dr Siddharth Nath Singh launched 'Mission Indradhanush (Rainbow) campaign' to save children from deadly diseases at an early age.
Hospital sources claimed that ten deaths were reported from the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) while six died in the Paediatric ICU in the past 24 hours. About 20 children, afflicted with Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES), were admitted in the hospital in the last 24 hours from Deoria, Kushinagar, Maharajganj, Basti, Balrampur, and Bihar. Only four survived.
Dr Mahima Mittal, Head Medicine, said that most of these children were admitted in a very critical stage and almost had no survival chances. "We had put them into the ICU and NICU but despite our best efforts they succumbed," said Dr Mittal.
A resident of Kushinagar, Rajkumar's son and daughter both were admitted at the BRD Medical College on Saturday with AES.
"My son succumbed and doctors have given up hope for my daughter also," said a wailing Rajkumar, who went for the cremation of the son while wife stayed back to look after their daughter.
"Doctors say just pray to God. Is there no treatment available to save my only son?" asked Nebulal, another parent, sobbing uncontrollably.
About 31 children had died at the BRD Medical College on August 10 and 11 when the oxygen supplier had snapped the supply over non-payment of dues. A total of 16 children had died in the month of August, sparking national outrage.
CM Adityanah had ordered a high-level probe and a FIR against nine hospital staff, including the oxygen supplier was lodged. All the nine accused - former principal of BRD Medical College Dr Rajeev Agarwal, his wife Dr Purnima Shukla, Dr Kafeel Ahmed Khan, Dr Satish Kumar, Dr Gajananad Jaiswal, owner of Pushpa Sales Pvt Ltd Manish Bhandari, three account department clerks Udai Pratap Singh, Sanjay Kumar and Sudhir Kumar - are behind bars in connection with deaths in August.
They are facing charges under Sections 120-B, 308 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code, 7/13 of Prevention of Corruption Act and Section 15 of the Indian Medical Council Act.
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