Atanu S Nayak

The toll in Japanese Encephalitis (JE) today mounted to 39 with three more children succumbing to the disease in Odisha's Malkangiri district even as the state government refused to go for immunisation.

61 infants have died at a children's hospital in Cuttack in Odisha in just two weeks, sparking protests and forcing the state government of Navin Patnaik to launch an investigation.

It seems Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Post Graduate Institute of Paediatrics, popularly known as Sishu Bhawan, Cuttack, is a virtual death trap as more than 5,900 infants have died while undergoing treatment in the last five years.

The toll in Japanese Encephalitis (JE) today mounted to 39 with three more children succumbing to the disease in Odisha's Malkangiri district even as the state government refused to go for immunisation.

61 infants have died at a children's hospital in Cuttack in Odisha in just two weeks, sparking protests and forcing the state government of Navin Patnaik to launch an investigation.

It seems Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Post Graduate Institute of Paediatrics, popularly known as Sishu Bhawan, Cuttack, is a virtual death trap as more than 5,900 infants have died while undergoing treatment in the last five years.