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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Fresh UP baby death FIR sparks doc strike -Piyush Srivastava

Fresh UP baby death FIR sparks doc strike -Piyush Srivastava

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published Published on Sep 5, 2017   modified Modified on Sep 5, 2017
-The Telegraph

Lucknow: Once bitten, the Yogi Adityanath administration acted fast when reports came of mass baby deaths at a hospital in Farrukhabad that had allegedly failed to administer oxygen to them, registering an FIR against two senior doctors.

But the decision, on the basis of a probe by a "non-technical team" of civil servants, has prompted government doctors in the western district to strike work till Wednesday and threaten mass resignation on Thursday if the FIR is not revoked.

Late in the evening, the state information department acknowledged that 19 of the babies were stillborn, whittling the death toll down to 30 from 49, the figure mentioned in the police complaint by city magistrate Jainendra Kumar Jain.

These 30 deaths occurred in 33 days, between July 20 and August 21, at Ram Manohar Lohia District Hospital in Farrukhabad, 220km west of Lucknow. The same number had died in two days at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur after the oxygen vendor stopped supplies on August 9 evening because of unpaid dues of Rs 68 lakh.

Three doctors have been arrested in Gorakhpur and a fourth is in hiding, amid charges that the government had made them a scapegoat for its own delay in sanctioning funds to pay the vendor.

B.B. Pushkar, the Farrukhabad hospital's chief medical superintendent, told reporters that most of the children had indeed died of perinatal asphyxia (deprivation of oxygen immediately before or after birth) but lack of external oxygen supply was not the reason.

But Jain's police complaint alleges: "The mothers or relatives of the dead children told the inquiry officers (Jain and subdivisional magistrate Ajit Kumar Singh) on the phone that neither was an oxygen cannula (a thin tube inserted through the nose) fixed nor any medicine administered to the babies."

Last evening, the district authorities lodged an FIR against the hospital's chief medical officer, Uma Kant Pandey, and the chief medical superintendent of its women's wing, Akhilesh Agrawal, for "dereliction of duty".

Today, the state government transferred both of them along with district magistrate Ravindra Kumar, without giving them new assignments.

V.K. Dubey, president of the Farrukhabad unit of the state medical services association, said: "The government has registered an FIR against the two doctors on the basis of a report by a non-technical team. We are not going to allow this."

The government has now asked Padmakar Singh, the state's director-general of medical and health, to probe the "technical reasons" behind the deaths.

Jain's complaint does not clarify why the Farrukhabad hospital would have failed to administer oxygen, as alleged, but asserts: "It was clear that the majority of the children died because they didn't get sufficient oxygen."

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The Telegraph, 4 September, 2017, https://www.telegraphindia.com/1170905/jsp/nation/story_170902.jsp


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