Gorakhpur hospital deaths : SC declines plea for suo motu action
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.
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