Local authorities scrambled to bring in additional staff and equipment at a government hospital in northern India where scores of children have died, amid a social media firestorm about the deplorable state of many healthcare facilities by AbhirupRoy30
KOTA, Rajasthan - Some 109 children have so far died at a government hospital in northern India since the beginning of December, said a hospital official on Sunday, even as local authorities scrambled to bring in additional staff and equipment amid a rising outcry over poor healthcare facilities in the country.
It has also unleashed a political blame game between the state’s ruling Congress party, and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party at the center, after Rajasthan’s chief minister defended the situation saying there had been more infant deaths at that hospital, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP was in power in the state.
A lack of infrastructure and staff, along with unhygienic conditions may have played a role in some of the deaths, said the source, adding the hospital - the only center with a neonatal intensive care unit in a 200-kilometre radius - is often a hospital that receives critically ill children from elsewhere, contributing to higher mortality rates.
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