Srinagar: After CNN-IBN's sustained reporting on the issue, the medical superintendent of the GB Pant hospital in Srinagar has been removed. Now the Opposition to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's government has demanded the Prime Minister's intervention. The PDP and an independent MLA have also demanded a CBI probe. As many as 359 infants have died in Srinagar's only paediatric hospital since January. CNN-IBN had reported how the...
09:30 AM, May 18, 2012
Srinagar: Another infant has died at the GB Pant Hospital, Srinagar's only paediatric facility, taking the death toll to 359 in five months. The infant died when the state's Medical Education Minister RS Chib was visiting the hospital on Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's orders. The government acted after CNN-IBN reported on the shortage of the medical staff and facilities and has released funds for an upgrade. Speaking...
09:47 AM, May 17, 2012
Srinagar: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Wednesday asked the state's Medical & Education Minister to quickly upgrade facilities at Srinagar's only children's hospital GB Pant. Omar said that the hospital's budget would be raised and more ventilators would be provided to the hospital. This after CNN-IBN reported how lack of medical care has led to the death of as many as 62 infants in 3 months. The...
01:31 PM, May 16, 2012
Srinagar: Over 62 newborns have died in the past three months at Srinagar's only paediatric hospital GB Pant. The hospital is facing an acute shortage of trained staff and medical equipment. The sole paediatric hospital in Srinagar has literally become a death trap. In the past six weeks alone, 30 infants have died due to doctors' negligence and inadequate health equipment to tackle the crisis. The doctors say they are...
08:30 AM, May 16, 2012
Lucknow: Criticised for not doing enough to tackle the killer Encephalitis, the Centre has now formed a GoM to look into the matter. The move comes weeks after after CNN-IBN relentlessly reported on the death of over 500 children in eastern Uttar Pradesh over 90 days. The encephalitis virus that starts weakening as winter sets in seems to be as strong as ever. Under heavy criticism for first ignoring this...
07:07 PM, Nov 06, 2011
New Delhi: The government has constituted a Group of Ministers (GoM) to tackle the Japanese encephalitis outbreak in the country. The government has acted after CNN-IBN relentlessly reported on the epidemic, which has claimed the lives of over 500 children in two months. Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad and Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh had rushed to Gorakhpur last month after watching the reports. Azad at that time said that...
08:59 AM, Nov 06, 2011
New Delhi: About 40 children have died in government hospitals in West Bengal in the past few weeks. This is not a statistic; this is " each one of these deaths is " a profound and wrenching tragedy. I could begin by blaming the impact of 34 years of Left Front rule and the mess the state health system is in " but I won't. Faced with such a human...
06:00 AM, Nov 04, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday blamed the Left for ruining the state's healthcare following death of a newborn baby at a hospital in Murshidabad after doctors used acid instead of Dettol as a disinfectant. Recounting her horror at the hospital, 28-year-old Shikha said, "I was unconscious. When I woke up, I heard my baby is dead and my legs were burning." During delivery her legs were...
09:22 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Kolkata: After BC Roy Hospital, 12 children death have been reported from Burdwan Medical College in the last 24 hours. Six of these children have died of encephalitis. Director of Medical Education and Bengal Health Commissioner have rushed to Burdwan to assess the situation. Meanwhile 4 more infants have died at the BC Roy Hospital in the city, with this the total death toll has climbed to 17 in less...
03:11 PM, Oct 28, 2011
New Delhi: Four children are estimated to die every minute, in the country mostly from preventable diseases, like diarrhoea. Though Delhi doesn't rank amongst India's six worst hit states for malnutrition, the figures are just as bad. A survey has been done at Kali Basti in Delhi by CRY. The survey of 101 children found 56 of them were malnourished. "We work in 21 states, and the situation in Delhi...
10:20 AM, Oct 27, 2011
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