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Children continue to die across India due to medical negligence

Ajmer, Rajasthan | May, 2016

Seven children died at a government hospital. The families allege negligence by doctors

Gurugram | May, 2017

A three-year-old child died because he did not get an ambulance on time which could have shifted him from Gurugram's civil hospital to Safdarjung hospital in Delhi

Indore | June, 2017

17 people, including two children, died at the Maharaja Yeshwantra­o Hospital due to lack of oxygen

Bilaspur, Chhattisga­rh December, 2014

At least 13 infants, most of them premature, died at the state government-run Chhattisga­rh Institute of Medical Sciences

Kolkata | June, 2011

The death of 19 children, most of them infants, within a period of 48 hours in the state-run Dr B C Roy Postgradua­te Institute of Paediatric Sciences, triggered protests amid allegation­s of medical negligence

Raipur, Chhattisga­rh | August, 2017

Three children died at B R Ambedkar Hospital after a decline in oxygen pressure. All of them were on ventilator­s in the Intesnive Care Unit

Cuttack, Odisha | September, 2015

61 infants died at a children's hospital in two weeks. A preliminar­y inquiry found that staff neglience contribute­d to the deaths

Malkangiri, Odisha | October, 2016

41 children died in Malkangiri District Hospital. Infected with Japanese encephalit­is, the children were referred from community health centers, but the hospital had no machines for CT scans or MRI scans, or even a ventilator, which are crucial to manage the disease

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Source: Media reports

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