Gorakhpur Child Deaths

Actor and former BJP MP Paresh Rawal has apologised to paediatrician Kafeel Khan who was recently absolved of charges of medical negligence and corruption in connection with Gorakhpur's 2017 BRD hospital tragedy.

Two years after a doctor at a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur was suspended, arrested and jailed for his alleged role in the deaths of over 60 children due to alleged oxygen shortage, a state government report has absolved him of all major accusations.

Uttar Pradesh-based pediatrician Kafeel Khan, who was suspended last year following the deaths of a large number of Japanese encephalitis-afflicted children at a hospital in Gorakhpur, has reached Muzaffarpur to volunteer his service amid the Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) outbreak that has led to the death of 118 children in the north Bihar tow...

Kafeel Khan, the doctor who was jailed in a case involving the death of 63 children at Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College today alleged that BJP lawmaker from Bansgaon, Kamlesh Paswan was behind a recent attack on his brother Kashif Jamal.

Eight months after he was arrested and jailed, for baby deaths at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, Dr Kafeel Khan is a free man for now. The Allahabad High Court has granted Dr Khan bail, saying there was no direct evidence of negligence on his part. After walking out of jail, Dr Khan hugged his mother, wife and daughter; "I'm mentally tire...

The owner of Pushpa Sales, which supplied oxygen to the state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College where dozens of children died last month, was today arrested in connection with the case.

Former chief pharamacist of the BRD Medical College today surrendered in a city court in connection with the child deaths in the state-run hospital here last month and was remanded in judicial custody.

Lucknow: Over 2,000 doctors will be posted at government hospitals in Uttar Pradesh in the coming days, a step which comes in the backdrop of criticism over poor health facilities in the state which was rocked by child deaths in Gorakhpur. Uttar Pradesh health minister Siddharth Nath Singh on Wednesday said that posts of 7,328 doctors had been lyin...

The former head of the Anaesthesia department at the state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College Dr Satish today surrendered in a local court here, taking to five the number of those held in connection with the death of children in the hospital.

The Uttar Pradesh police has arrested a clerk of the BRD Medical College in connection with the death of dozens of children at the state-run hospital last month, the fourth arrest in the case.

49 babies died in a month at a government hospital in Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh, it has emerged just days after the child deaths at a hospital in Gorakhpur last month. Grieving parents have blamed a shortage of medicine and oxygen, in a tragic replay of the Gorakhpur deaths. The state government, however, emphatically denied it today.

A doctor was arrested from Gorakhpur today in connection with the deaths of over 60 children in BRD Medical College and Hospital last month.

The Allahabad High Court today directed the Uttar Pradesh State Legal Services Authority (UPSLSA) to inspect Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur where a large number of children died recently owing to various reasons, including disruption of oxygen supply and encephalitis

A court in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur on Thursday sent suspended BRD Medical college Principal and his wife to 14-day judicial custody in connection with 60 children's deaths within seven days.

Sixty one children have died in the last 72 hours at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College in Gorakhpur, just three weeks after 70 children lost their lives due to the alleged shortage of oxygen at the same facility. In the last 24 hours, 19 children have died of whom four died of encephalitis. The other children died at the hospital's neo-nata...

Actor and former BJP MP Paresh Rawal has apologised to paediatrician Kafeel Khan who was recently absolved of charges of medical negligence and corruption in connection with Gorakhpur's 2017 BRD hospital tragedy.

Two years after a doctor at a government hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur was suspended, arrested and jailed for his alleged role in the deaths of over 60 children due to alleged oxygen shortage, a state government report has absolved him of all major accusations.

Uttar Pradesh-based pediatrician Kafeel Khan, who was suspended last year following the deaths of a large number of Japanese encephalitis-afflicted children at a hospital in Gorakhpur, has reached Muzaffarpur to volunteer his service amid the Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) outbreak that has led to the death of 118 children in the north Bihar tow...

Kafeel Khan, the doctor who was jailed in a case involving the death of 63 children at Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College today alleged that BJP lawmaker from Bansgaon, Kamlesh Paswan was behind a recent attack on his brother Kashif Jamal.

Eight months after he was arrested and jailed, for baby deaths at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, Dr Kafeel Khan is a free man for now. The Allahabad High Court has granted Dr Khan bail, saying there was no direct evidence of negligence on his part. After walking out of jail, Dr Khan hugged his mother, wife and daughter; "I'm mentally tire...

The owner of Pushpa Sales, which supplied oxygen to the state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College where dozens of children died last month, was today arrested in connection with the case.

Former chief pharamacist of the BRD Medical College today surrendered in a city court in connection with the child deaths in the state-run hospital here last month and was remanded in judicial custody.

Lucknow: Over 2,000 doctors will be posted at government hospitals in Uttar Pradesh in the coming days, a step which comes in the backdrop of criticism over poor health facilities in the state which was rocked by child deaths in Gorakhpur. Uttar Pradesh health minister Siddharth Nath Singh on Wednesday said that posts of 7,328 doctors had been lyin...

The former head of the Anaesthesia department at the state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College Dr Satish today surrendered in a local court here, taking to five the number of those held in connection with the death of children in the hospital.

The Uttar Pradesh police has arrested a clerk of the BRD Medical College in connection with the death of dozens of children at the state-run hospital last month, the fourth arrest in the case.

49 babies died in a month at a government hospital in Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh, it has emerged just days after the child deaths at a hospital in Gorakhpur last month. Grieving parents have blamed a shortage of medicine and oxygen, in a tragic replay of the Gorakhpur deaths. The state government, however, emphatically denied it today.

A doctor was arrested from Gorakhpur today in connection with the deaths of over 60 children in BRD Medical College and Hospital last month.

The Allahabad High Court today directed the Uttar Pradesh State Legal Services Authority (UPSLSA) to inspect Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur where a large number of children died recently owing to various reasons, including disruption of oxygen supply and encephalitis

A court in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur on Thursday sent suspended BRD Medical college Principal and his wife to 14-day judicial custody in connection with 60 children's deaths within seven days.

Sixty one children have died in the last 72 hours at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College in Gorakhpur, just three weeks after 70 children lost their lives due to the alleged shortage of oxygen at the same facility. In the last 24 hours, 19 children have died of whom four died of encephalitis. The other children died at the hospital's neo-nata...