Kolkata: Four more infants died in BC Roy Hospital in Kolkata on Friday. All four infants were admitted with low birth weights. No complaint has been registered over the deaths so far. This came even as the West Bengal tried to play down the infant deaths in Kolkata saying the children were brought in a critical condition. 17 infants have died in the last 70 hours at the BC Roy...
01:33 PM, Oct 28, 2011
New Delhi: The West Bengal government is trying to play down the infant deaths in Kolkata saying the children were brought in a critical condition. 13 infants died in 48 hours at the BC Roy Hospital for children in Kolkata. Despite Mamata Banerjee's promises in June, the hospital is still begging for support. However, speaking to CNN-IBN, West Bengal Director of Medical Education Sushanto Bandopadhyay said that there has not...
07:25 AM, Oct 28, 2011
West Bengal Director of Medical Education Sushanto Bandopadhyay said the infant mortality rate has come down. ...
10:37 PM, Oct 27, 2011
New Delhi: Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad on Thursday gave a clean chit to the BC Roy Children's Hospital in Kolkata where the crib death toll has risen to 13 in three days, saying there is nothing wrong with the health care institution. The Minister, however, said the Centre has sought a report on the death of children at the referral hospital, the largest in West Bengal. "We took...
09:48 PM, Oct 27, 2011
Kolkata: Twelve infant deaths in 48 hours. The thirteenth succumbed on Thursday morning at the state-run BC Roy Pediatric Hospital in Kolkata. Following the hue and cry over 18 crib deaths in quick succession in June this year, the hospital it seems is yet to take corrective action. The hospital says that the facility is always over burdened with patients in a critical state being referred from both government and...
08:38 PM, Oct 27, 2011
Kurnool: The Andhra Pradesh government gave a clean chit to the Kurnool government hospital where 10 infants died in less than two days. But now the government has done a U-turn and admitted that the hospital is ill equipped and has rushed in new incubators and allocated more funds to revamp it. But the question is if this is enough. Ten infant deaths in less than 48 hours at the...
07:07 AM, Sep 04, 2011
Kurnool: Ten infants have died since Thursday at a government hospital in Kurnool district in Andhra Pradesh. The district administration gave a shocking reaction claiming it wasn't human error but God's error. The Andhra Pradesh Health Minister said that two to three deaths are a common occurrence and the government probe report has given a clean chit to the hospital. The parents allege the babies died due to lack of...
11:04 AM, Sep 03, 2011
The families allege the hospital failed to repair dysfunctional ventilators inspite of repeated complaints. ...
09:28 AM, Sep 03, 2011
Kurnool: Ten infants have died in a span of 48 hours in a government hospital in Kurnool in Andhra Pradesh. The parents of the infants allege that the ventilators that their babies were put on, were not supplying enough oxygen. The parents also said that in spite of bringing this to the notice of the hospital authorities, nothing had been done. The hospital authorities have denied these allegations. The parents...
09:50 AM, Sep 02, 2011
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10:12 PM, Jun 30, 2011
Sydney: Australian opener David Warner said he sensed desperation among the Indian visitors as they try to salvage something from their dismal Down Under tour. Warner, who helped Australia secure their place in the tri-series ODI finals following a massive win over India on Sunday, said he was surprised by how poor the tourists had been, given the talent and experience at their disposal. The 25-year-old batsman was Man of...
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