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Business News/ Politics / Policy/  Farrukhabad DM, CMO removed after 49 children die in district hospital
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Farrukhabad DM, CMO removed after 49 children die in district hospital

Uttar Pradesh govt transfers Farrukhabad DM, chief medical officer and chief medical superintendent of the district hospital after the deaths of 49 children

File photo. Farrukhabad hospital recorded 49 deaths—30 in neo-natal ICU and 19 during delivery—between 20 July and 21 August. Photo: APPremium
File photo. Farrukhabad hospital recorded 49 deaths—30 in neo-natal ICU and 19 during delivery—between 20 July and 21 August. Photo: AP

Farukhabad: The Uttar Pradesh government on Monday transferred the Farrukhabad district magistrate as well as the chief medical officer and the chief medical superintendent of the district hospital after the deaths of 49 children in one month.

The hospital recorded 49 deaths—30 in neo-natal ICU and 19 during delivery—between 20 July and 21 August, an official spokesperson said in Lucknow. “A high-level team will be sent to Farrukhabad to probe the deaths and its technical aspects will also be taken care of. Taking note of the incident, the DM, the CMO and the CMS (women’s hospital) have been removed," he said.

He added that 468 deliveries took place in the women’s wing of the hospital during the period. Of these, 19 were stillbirths. An FIR in the matter was registered at city police on Sunday night in Farrukhabad, about 180 km from the state capital, against the CMO and the CMS.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s office took prompt notice of the matter after local news channels reported the death of 49 children in the hospital and directed district magistrate Ravindra Kumar to conduct a probe, officials said. City magistrate Jaynendra Kumar Jain and SDM Ajit Kumar Singh said the probe found that 30 deaths were due to lack of oxygen.

They also mentioned in their report that the CMO and the CMS did not cooperate and did not give a correct report. “During the period, 30 children died mostly due to perinatal asphyxia (a condition in which a child does not breathe normally just before, during, or after birth).

During probe, the parents informed that there was delay in providing oxygen and medicine due to which the children died due to lack of adequate supply of oxygen," Jain said in the report. However, it had no mention of the remaining 19 deaths.

The deaths of children in the Farrukhabad hospital come after at least 30 children died in a state-run hospital in Gorakhpur on 10-11 August amid allegations of oxygen shortage, a charge denied by the state government.

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Published: 04 Sep 2017, 01:39 PM IST
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