At least 49 children died in a month allegedly due to lack of liquid oxygen supply in Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Farrukhabad district of Uttar Pradesh. The district magistrate, in his report, found that the deaths were due to lack of oxygen supply and negligence on the part of doctors. Earlier, 415 children had died in Baba Raghav Das hospital in Gorakhpur.
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An FIR was also ordered against Chief Medical Officer and doctors of the hospital.
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The deaths were reported between July 21 and August 20.
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District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar had ordered an enquiry into the matter.
An FIR was filed against Chief Medical Officer and doctors of the hospital. District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar had ordered an inquiry into the deaths that were reported between July 21 and August 20. The action came in the wake of 19 notices not being answered by the hospital authorities regarding the same.
The hospital authority, on its part, has denied any lack of supply of liquid oxygen. Defending the fatalities, authority said the sick infants were under weight. A total 30 children died in the sick newly born care unit (SNCU) of the hospital alone. Other 19 infants died at the time of delivery or soon after birth at the hospital.
Earlier, 415 children had died in Baba Raghav Das Hospital in Gorakhpur due to encephalitis, pneumonia and other ailments. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had said encephalitis remains a major concern in the region since the 1970s’.
