-Outlook India The expertise the imprisoned doctor offered to the fight against COVID-19 comes from a self-driven struggle with encephalitis, which kills thousands every year The Supreme Court directed on March 23 that all prisoners, under trial or convicted and jailed for less than seven years, be considered for release on a six-week parole, in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. On March 28, Dr Kafeel Ahmed Khan, twice-suspended paediatrician from Gorakhpur...
More »SEARCH RESULT
Total Matching Records found : 26
After Bihar, U.P. braces for encephalitis season -Omar Rashid
-The Hindu The disease had claimed more than 154 lives in Bihar Gorakhpur: The tension on Sunita’s face is palpable as she looks at her eight-year-old daughter who is asleep on a bed at the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur. While the official diagnosis is yet to be ascertained, doctors say the child has shown symptoms of Acute Encephalitis Syndrome, a group of diseases that...
More »Children Continue to Die at brd medical college, 907 Deaths Since January This Year -Tarique Anwar
-Newsclick.in As soon as the monsoon will arrive, there would be a sudden rise in number of encephalitis deaths. Children’s deaths at Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College in Gorakhpur have come back to haunt the Uttar Pradesh government almost a year after a similar incident – wherein almost 60 infants had died in August last year – created a national uproar. In the same hospital, more than 900 children have lost...
More »30 children die in past 48 hrs at Gorakhpur medical college -Pravin Kumar
-The Times of India GORAKHPUR: 30 children died at Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College in Gorakhpur in past 48 hours (from Wednesday midnight to Friday midnight). Of these, 15 deaths took place in Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and 15 in paediatrics intensive care unit (PICU) in the last 48 hours. On Thursday, 25 patients were admitted to NICU while 66 children were admitted to PICU. In past 24 hours (from...
More »The encephalitis challenge -Priyanka Chaturvedi & Oommen C Kurian
-The Hindu There must be consensus among major political parties around vital issues like health Barely a month before the deaths of children in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh, allegedly due to the disruption of oxygen supply in the brd medical college, the U.P. Health Minister had addressed a consultation in Lucknow organised by the Observer Research Foundation. He admitted that U.P.’s health system was in the “ICU”, and said he was trying...
More »
