16 kids die at Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College

lucknow — Sixteen children, including ten infants, died at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College in Gorakhpur during the last 24 hours, authorities said on Monday.

Of the children who died, 10 were admitted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) while six were in the paediatric ICU.

According to reports, 20 patients — including six from Deoria, two from Kushinagar, four each from Gorakhpur and Maharajganj, and one patient each from Basti and Balrampur — afflicted with encephalitis have been admitted to the hospital in the last 24 hours.

As many as three dozen patients, mostly affected by encephalitis, were being treated at BRD Medical College. Five patients from Bihar were also being treated there, doctors said.

Officials said that 1,470 patients have been admitted to the BRD Medical College since January this year, adding that a total of 310 have died.

The BRD Medical College hit the headlines earlier in August when 63 children, including infants, died within a span of one week due to disruption

310 patients have died in brd Medical college since January

of oxygen supply by the vendor. The FIR was lodged against nine people, including the owner of the oxygen supplying company and the principal of BRD Medical College. Doctors said the latest deaths did not occur due to lack of oxygen, treatment or anything else but the fact that they were brought to the hospital in a very critical condition. Doctors on strike Meanwhile, doctors in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh on Monday launched an agitation and threatened to disrupt OPD services after an Additional Chief Medical Officer (ACMO) died following a heart attack on Sunday on being humiliated by senior officials.

The Provincial Medical Services (PMS) Federation has demanded action against the CMO of Pratapgarh and the District Magistrate (DM) holding them responsible for the death of ACMO Ashok Kumar Chowrasia.

Chowrasia was transferred to Pratapgarh from Allahabad 15 days back. At the launch of the Indradhanush programme on Sunday, he was allegedly scolded by CMO Raj Kumar Nayyar. President of the PMS Federation Manoj Kanauji alleged that DM Shambhu Kumar also publicly humiliated Chowrasia after which he suffered a heart attack and was admitted to a private hospital in Allahabad where he died at night. —