Cops shove off kin

GORAKHPUR: It was the most tragic day for Bhikaran Yadav of Deoria. His only son Sumit, 4, died during treatment at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College in Gorakhpur on Sunday afternoon. But the worse was yet to come.

As chief minister Yogi Adityanath was scheduled to visit the hospital in five minutes, ‘alert’ policemen hurriedly got the body transported in a police van to avoid media glare.

Sumit’s death was the fourth casualty at BRD Medical College since Sunday morning.

As the CM inspected the facilities at the ward, parents of ailing children complained to him about the problems they faced at the hospital. Ramprasad, 32, had to produce his membership card of the Hindu Yuva Vahini (HYV) to get his daughter Anushka admitted to the medical college on August 11.While the CM was meeting the parents at the 100bed ward of the medical college, Ramprasad narrated his woes to him.

“My daughter is suffering from fever and was denied admission when I first came here. The doctors at Kushinagar had insisted that she should be treated here,” he told the CM, who spent 40 minutes at the hospital. Mangta Devi, mother of three-year-old girl Aditi from Kushinagar also had complaints but was too tense to speak. On her behalf, the girl’s aunt Anita told the CM, “She is sitting next to her daughter who is unconscious since last night. Doctors are not telling us what has happened to her.”

Ram Asrey of Deoria got his son Babloo, 8, admitted to the hospital two days ago. He wants to know why his son is falling ill frequently for the last four years. “Every 15 days I have to take him to the hospital. I don’t know what has happened to him. The doctors do not tell much,” he said.