Allahabad HC asks UP govt to reply to Kafeel Khan's petition
India | August 03, 2021 10:02 ISTThe court has listed August 5 as the date for the next hearing in Kafeel Khan's BRD Medical College case.
The court has listed August 5 as the date for the next hearing in Kafeel Khan's BRD Medical College case.
Khan, then a paediatrician at the state-run hospital, was accused of negligence. He was suspended and later arrested following an outrage over the infant deaths.
Days after it came to light that Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College paediatrician Kafeel Khan was cleared of corruption and medical negligence charges by a probe panel, the state government on Thursday said it would be wrong to presume that he was given a clean chit.
The younger brother of suspended BRD Hospital doctor Kafeel Khan was shot by unidentified bikers in Gorakhpur, After the incident her mother has requested for police protection
Sixteen children died at the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur during the last 24 hours.
UP Police today arrested Pushpa Sales' owner Manish Bhandari who supplied oxygen to BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur
According to the data compiled by the UP health department, made available to PTI, 1,317 children had died in the state-run facility so far this year.
According to hospital records, in January 152 children died, in February 122, March 159, April 123, May 139, June 137, July 128 and August 325, besides in September 32 children have died so far.
Giving a month-wise break up, Singh said the toll in January was 152, in February 122, March 159, April 123, May 139, June 137, July 128 and August 325, besides 19 on the first day of September.
As many as 296 children died this month at the state-run Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, which has recorded 1,256 deaths since January.
A total of 290 children have died in the Baba Raghav Das Medical College here in the month of August, of which 213 died in the neo natal ICU and 77 in the encephalitis ward, principal P K Singh said
The development comes close on the heels of a similar horror earlier this month when more than 60 children, including infants died at the hospital within a span of a week.
Six more children have died from encephalitis since Saturday at state-run BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur.
BJP chief Amit Shah today attempted to play down the Gorakhpur hospital tragedy saying such "accidents" have taken place in the past as well.
The NHRC has sent a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government over the death of several children at BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur.
The Uttar Pradesh government’s medical education department, in a letter to the medical colleges, also directed them to immediately pay all the outstanding dues to the oxygen suppliers (if any).
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