Three siblings among four kids die at Darbhanga hospital in two days

PATNA/DRBHANGA: Four children have died at Darbhanga Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) since Saturday, including three siblings who had tested negative for Covid. The fourth casualty was Covid-positive and had co-morbidities, the hospital said.
Paediatrics head of DMCH Dr K N Mishra, who is also the teaching hospital's officiating principal, scotched speculation that the deaths might be linked to MIS-C, short for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.
Siblings Pooja (12), Chandan (9) and Aarti Yadav (8) of Eathrwa village in Madhubani district died of complications caused by pneumonia, septicaemia and severe haemoglobin deficiency within 24 hours of each other, he said. “Before being hospitalised in a critical condition on Friday, the children's family had taken them to quacks,” he added.
The youngest of bereaved father Rampreet Yadav’s four kids had died a fortnight ago.
The Covid-positive child who died on Sunday was suffering from hydrocephalus and water had to be drained out of his brain last year. “The two-and-a-half-year-old boy was undergoing treatment in a private hospital in Patna and was referred to IGIMS or AIIMS-Patna. However, the family brought him to DMCH on Sunday as they are from Madhubani. The child was on ventilation even in the ambulance,” Dr Mishra said.
DMCH superintendent Dr M B Sharma said the three siblings were admitted to the hospital around 4.30pm on May 28. “Two of them died the next day and the third child breathed his last on Sunday. The Covid positive child had died on Sunday,” Dr Sharma added.
Jan Adhikar Party (Loktantrik) chief and former MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav had tweeted about the four deaths at DMCH on Sunday night. Pappu, arrested on May 11 in a more than three-decade-old case, is undergoing treatment at the hospital.