Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati will inaugurate a Rs 685-crore park in Noida today with an impressive posse of 2500 policemen and about 40,000 BSP workers in attendance.
From about 750 km away in the same state come some more sombre statistics: More than 400 children have died in and around Gorakhpur in eastern UP this year of the deadly Japanese encephalitis, and the Mayawati government has sanctioned Rs 18 crore to combat the menace.
The Uttar Pradesh human rights commission has now sought an explanation on the rampant spread of the killer disease in the area and asked the government to spell out the steps it is taking to control it.
The statistics continue to get more alarming. In the last 33 years there have been about 50,000 deaths, 430 have died this year and the numbers are increasing every day. People from villages around Gorakhpur say there has been no fogging or vaccination as children continue to fall ill and die. Despite the virus spreading fast in new areas, 33,000 vaccines are still lying unused.
From about 750 km away in the same state come some more sombre statistics: More than 400 children have died in and around Gorakhpur in eastern UP this year of the deadly Japanese encephalitis, and the Mayawati government has sanctioned Rs 18 crore to combat the menace.
The Uttar Pradesh human rights commission has now sought an explanation on the rampant spread of the killer disease in the area and asked the government to spell out the steps it is taking to control it.
The statistics continue to get more alarming. In the last 33 years there have been about 50,000 deaths, 430 have died this year and the numbers are increasing every day. People from villages around Gorakhpur say there has been no fogging or vaccination as children continue to fall ill and die. Despite the virus spreading fast in new areas, 33,000 vaccines are still lying unused.
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