-Hindustan Times India’s public expenditure on health is rising, but not as fast as its burgeoning population of 1.3 billion, which grow by 26 million each year It’s not the lack of oxygen that kills hundreds of children in hospitals of Uttar Pradesh each year, it’s India’s abysmal public health delivery system. “Gorakhpur is the symbol of the collapse of the primary health care system. Why should people be forced to travel 200km...
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Uttar Pradesh among top 5 encephalitis prone states, suggests official data
When more than 30 children died in Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College due to Japanese Encephalitis (JE) and Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) between 10th and 12th of August this year, it became a sensational news item for the Indian media. However, one cannot assume that the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath did not know that several districts of his state, including Gorakhpur were among the JE/ AES...
More »Why Gorakhpur tragedy is just the tip of the iceberg -Dipti Jain
-Livemint.com India’s healthcare challenges are daunting but the challenges seem to be most acute in Uttar Pradesh, the country’s most populous state The recent deaths of more than 70 children in less than a week’s span at the BRD Medical College Hospital have focused attention on the deep-seated rot in the hospital, and in Gorakhpur district in general. But far from being an under-performer in terms of health and development outcomes, Gorakhpur...
More »Kiran rings health alarm -Subhankar Chowdhury
-The Telegraph Calcutta: Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, the chairman and managing director of biotechnology company Biocon, today said incidents like the Gorakhpur hospital Child Deaths should trigger the debate "why we spend only 1 per cent of our GDP on health care". Mazumdar-Shaw, who was awarded DSc (honoris causa) by Presidency University, said: "A very, very worrying trend in India is that we spend only 1 per cent of our GDP on health care....
More »Gorakhpur deaths: Documents show Minister was briefed on 'BRD irregularities' -Omar Rashid
-The Hindu Ashutosh Tandon was also informed on dwindling supply of oxygen in BRD While the Uttar Pradesh government and its Ministers have claimed that they were not informed about the alleged irregularities in the BRD hospital, documents that have surfaced seem to indicate otherwise. The documents show that U.P. Medical Education Minister Ashtosh Tandon was informed of the alleged irregularities and also kept in the loop by the supplier in the matter...
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