5 More Infants Die In Bengal's Burdwan Hospital, Toll 35
Anupam Mishra [ Updated 31 Oct 2011, 11:02:03 ]
Kolkata/Burdwan, Oct 31: Even as West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday brusquely refused to take questions on spiralling number of deaths of newborn infants in government hospitals, five more newborn infants died in Burdwan medical College Hospital, taking the death toll in hospitals to 35.
Five infants died in Burdwan Hospital during the last 24 hours, and the toll of 35 infants refers to the deaths that took place in the last five days in Kolkata and Burdwan.
The state government claims it is providing satisfactory service to the parents of these infants, but facts speak otherwise.
In Burdwan hospital alone, 17 newborn infants have died so far in the last five days. Three infants died in the pediatric department, while two others died in the nursery during the last 24 hours.
Principal of Burdwan Medical College Sarit Chaudhury says, deaths of newborn infants are mostly because the infants are underweight, which is common.
In Kolkata's B C Roy Children's Hospital, 18 infants have died so far in the last five days. There was no death, however, on Saturday night.
A Human Rights team of officials visited the hospital on Sunday and said overcrowding in children's hospitals seemed to be the main reason behind the deaths.
The state government has been saying that jaundice, encephalitis, septicemia and low weight are the reasons for the deaths of infants.Meanwhile the parents of newborn infants in government hospitals of West Bengal are in panic.
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