Farrukhabad magistrate, CMO transferred after 49 kids’ death in a month
Shahira Naim
Tribune News Service
Lucknow, September 4
The Farrukhabad district magistrate, chief medical officer and chief medical superintendent have been transferred for the death of 49 children within a month, reportedly due to lack of oxygen.
The Farrukhabad police have lodged criminal cases against the top doctors of state-run Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Female Hospital.
Confirming the lodging of the FIRs against the chief medical superintendt (CMS) and chief medical officer (CMO) and other doctors of the hospital, Farrukhabad SP Dayanand Mishra said the cases had been filed under IPC sections 176 (omission to give information to public servant by person legally bound to give), 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) and 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder).
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Following media reports of the deaths, the District Magistrate had formed a probe committee which had asked the Farrukhabad Chief Medical Officer and hospital CMS to furnish a detailed report of the cause of 49 deaths in the Special New Born Care Unit (SNCU) during the last one month.
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However, the report submitted by the doctors was reportedly incomplete claiming only 30 deaths due to ‘perinatal asphyxia’.
However, during the probe conducted by Farrukhabad City Magistrate JK Jain, the parents of the deceased infants revealed that neither did the doctors administer oxygen to their children nor was any medicine given resulting in the deaths.
The report submitted by Jain claims the hospital administration of violating orders and submitting an incomplete and misleading list. After this the district administration took legal action.
Defending the hospital administration, CMO Umakant Pandey maintained that negligence could not be held responsible for the children’s deaths.
The Farrukhabad deaths allegedly due to lack of oxygen come days after 30 deaths within 36 hours due to disruption of oxygen supply at Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical college hospital in which three doctors have already been arrested and the UP STF is searching for six more accused.
