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Death is the only certainty here, rest is just chance -Damini Nath

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published Published on Aug 20, 2017   modified Modified on Aug 20, 2017
-The Hindu

Nearly 20 lives are lost every day at the hospital in Gorakhpur, where a recent night played havoc with hopes of the young, leaving parents with no sense of closure

GORAKHPUR (U.P.):
For one family, it is the first day of school that their five-year-old girl was looking forward to, but will never see; for another, it is the celebration planned for the newborn twins conceived after eight years of trying, but cancelled as they never came home.

Over a week after oxygen supply ran out in Baba Raghav Das Medical College (BRD) here on August 10 and 11, families of the children who died in the neonatal and paediatrics intensive care units and the encephalitis ward that day have no answers; only stories of lives cut short and hopes dashed. A total of 567, 668 and 587 children died in the hospital in the month of August in 2014, 2015 and 2016, respectively, which means 18 to 21 dead children a day.

Paying no heed

Given the high prevalence of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in the region during the monsoon, several doctors that The Hindu spoke to said that most of the children brought in could not have been saved. But the fact remains that the authorities, including the suspended Principal, Rajeev Mishra, did not respond to repeated reminders from the oxygen supplier, Pushpa Sales, to clear pending payments. If the bills were not cleared, it had warned, the supply might be stopped.

The company for its part has claimed that it did not cut supply despite outstanding bills. As the government probes the matter, families left devastated are struggling to make sense of their loss. Bahadur Nishad, a resident of Gulhariya in Gorakhpur district, says his four-year-old son, Deepak, was one of the “first to die” on August 10, when the oxygen supply ran out.

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The Hindu, 19 August, 2017, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/gorakhpur-hospital-death-is-the-only-certainty-here-rest-is-just-chance/article19525993.ece?homepage=true


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