Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday visited Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur. After being witness to the sad state of affairs, he said that he was deeply saddened by the death of over
70 children at the hospital now being called Gorakhpur tragedy. He also said he would punish the guilty.
"Nobody can be more sensitive towards those children than me. Prime Minister is very concerned and he assured complete assistance from the Centre.
Prime Minister has also sent Union Health Minister JP Nadda to take cognizance of the situation," Adityanath said.
"The State government has realized that a probe in the matter is necessary. Let reports of probe committee come. Assure you, if anyone's negligence caused the death of a person, in any part of UP, he won't be spared," he added.
Till now, over 70 children have died of encephalitis.
Dr. Kafeel Ahmed Khan ousted
The hospital authorities have also removed Dr Kafeel Ahmed Khan as the Nodal Officer for BRD Medical College's Department of Pediatrics, and replaced him by Dr Bhupendra Sharma.
Some reports suggested Ahmed had tried his best to save as many children as possible by collecting oxygen cylinders from nearby hospitals.
He tried to reach out to his doctor friends in other hospitals and local vendors to send some oxygen cylinders and succeeded in collecting 12 of them.
Dr Ahmed had also given debit card to one of his juniors and asked him to withdraw cash to make the payment at the earliest.
According to data procured from the BRD hospital, a total of 60 deaths have occurred in the hospital from August 7 to August 11.
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