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Yogi Adityanath orders top cop to ensure decent celebration of Janmashtami in UP

| | Aug 14, 2017, at 11:12 pm
Lucknow, Aug 14 (IBNS): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered the top cop to ensure that people celebrate Janmashtami festival with decency at a time when deaths of several children had occurred in the state, media reports said.

Around 63 children died in last few days in Baba Raghav Das Medical College due to the alleged lack of oxygen supply.

Though the UP CM held encephalitis as the main reason behind the deaths, he said on Monday that investigations will go on to find out if there was any lack of oxygen supply in the hospital.

The Supreme Court on Monday  rejected a plea for  taking  suo motu cognizance of the deaths of infants in Gorakhpur hospital  and institute a Special Investigation Team probe.

The apex court asked the petitioner to move the Allahabad High Court.

On Sunday, hours after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s visit to the state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College,  Dr Kafeel Khan was removed as the Nodal Officer for the pediatrics department on the ground of  “negligence of duty”.

As a bitter cry rose over the death of 63 children, including newborns, the Chief Minister  promised strict action against those responsible.

“The guilty will not be spared and such strict action would be taken by the Uttar Pradesh government that it would set an example for people to work with discipline,” he said.

Union Minister for Health, J P Nadda, who also visited the hospital along with the CM,  said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was reviewing the situation on a regular basis.

He  announced that the Centre would contribute Rs 85 crore towards setting up a Regional Medical Research Centre in Gorakhpur to study all the causes of infection among children in Eastern Uttar Pradesh.


Image: Official Facebook page of Yogi Adityanath.

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