In cold blood
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