Upset over being punished by teacher, a class five student in Uttar Pradesh’s Gorakhpur allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison.
Dr. Satish Kumar, Head of the Anesthesia department at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College, surrendered before the court in connection with the death of many children due to Encephalitis and shortage of oxygen supply.
The medical college CMS office clerk Sudhir Pandey has been arrested in the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College tragedy that killed more than 70 people.
The Uttar Pradesh STF arrested accused Dr Kafeel Khan from Gorakhpur over the death of nearly 70 children at the BRD Medical College’s Hospital.
With 16 more deaths, including one due to Encephalitis, the death toll in Gorakhpur’s now infamous B.R.D. Medical College since August has risen to 415.
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.
An FIR has been registered against nine people, including sacked principal of BRD Medical College, in connection with the deaths of over 70 children, due to alleged lack of oxygen supply, the police said.
Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who visited Gorakhpur along with party vice-president Rahul Gandhi told the media, “In spite of being five-time MP from Gorakhpur, he (Adityanath) did nothing for the hospital.”
Allahabad High Court asks Uttar Pradesh Government to specify cause of child deaths in Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College.
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