16 more children succumb at Gorakhpur hospital in 24 hrs

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 …read more