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Children's death: Victim's parents lodge police complaint against UP ministers

Last Updated 16 August 2017, 12:59 IST

One of the aggrieved parents of the children, who had died owing to alleged shortage of oxygen at the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur last week, has accused two UP ministers and a senior bureaucrat of being ''negligent'' and sought registration of a criminal case against them.

The central team, which had visited the BRD medical college to probe the matter, has rejected the assertion that shortage of oxygen was behind the deaths of children.

Manager Rajbhar, whose child was admitted to the Encephalitis ward at the medical college hospital, had died on August 11 along with many other children allegedly for want of oxygen.

Rajbhar, a resident of Motipur village in Motihari district of Bihar, lodged a complaint with Gulrahiya police station in Gorakhpur district alleging that his child had died owing to shortage of oxygen.

''My child died owing to lack of oxygen....no autopsy was conducted,'' Rajbhar said in his complaint.

The aggrieved father also said that oxygen supply to the hospital was affected owing to failure on the part of the UP health minister and the minister for medical education and principal secretary, health, to clear the dues of the gas supplying company on time.

Health Minister Siddharth Nath Singh and medical education minister Ashutosh Tandon had denied that shortage of oxygen supply had caused the death of the children.

A PIL was also filed on Wednesday in the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court seeking a judicial probe into the tragedy.

The PIL filed by social activist Nutan Thakur alleged that the probe by the chief secretary could try to shield the real culprits.

30 children, mostly new born, had died allegedly owing to shortage of oxygen at the hospital for a period of 36-hours between Thursday and Friday.

UP government suspended principal of the medical college Dr R.K.Mishra and shunted out the in-charge of the Encephalitis ward Dr Kafeel Khan on charges of laxity. A high-level probe was also ordered into the tragedy.

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(Published 16 August 2017, 12:59 IST)

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