Gorakhpur Tragedy

Paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan, whose name surfaced in the 2017 BRD Medical college tragedy in which several children died allegedly for lack of oxygen, said that he may contest against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur.

Kafeel Khan, who was charged with the death of infants at a state-run hospital in Gorakhpur last year, walked out of jail on Saturday.

Dr Kafeel Khan, the paediatrician in Gorakhpur's largest hospital arrested after the death of 63 children last August, has been ordered to be released on bail. The Allahabad High Court today granted bail to the doctor since the police had already filed charges against the accused.

In a reminder of the tragedy in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, eight infants have died in a span of 24 hours at the Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College and Hospital in Assam's Barpeta district. Five children died on Wednesday night and three on Thursday, as per hospital records.

Former chief pharamacist of the BRD Medical College today surrendered in a city court in connection with the child deaths in the state-run hospital here last month and was remanded in judicial custody.

The Uttar Pradesh police has arrested a clerk of the BRD Medical College in connection with the death of dozens of children at the state-run hospital last month, the fourth arrest in the case.

A doctor was arrested from Gorakhpur today in connection with the deaths of over 60 children in BRD Medical College and Hospital last month.

A court in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur on Thursday sent suspended BRD Medical college Principal and his wife to 14-day judicial custody in connection with 60 children's deaths within seven days.

NEW DELHI: A 15-year-old schoolgirl in Uttar Pradesh has launched a charity to provide oxygen to impoverished patients after more than 60 people, nearly half of them children, died allegedly due to a lack of oxygen at the main government hospital in her home town Gorakhpur. The patients died from encephalitis, a disease which causes brain inflammat...

Initiating action against officials responsible for the Gorakhpur tragedy in which over 60 children died in five days, the Yogi Adityanath government has removed Additional Chief Secretary (Medical Health) Anita Bhatnagar Jain.

The high-power committee probing the Gorakhpur hospital tragedy today submitted its report to the Uttar Pradesh government.

Terming the deaths of scores of children at a state-run hospital in Gorakhpur as a "government made tragedy", Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath should not try to cover up the matter.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will be on a visit to Gorakhpur tomorrow.

The Allahabad High Court today directed the UP government and the state's director general of medical education to file a detailed counter affidavit within six weeks on a PIL on the death of children in a state-run hospital in Gorakhpur.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared his vision for a "New India" in his Independence Day speech from Delhi's iconic Red Fort today, pledging to build it by 2022, when independent India turns 75. Early in his speech, his shortest in four years at 54 minutes, PM Modi mourned the tragic death of children at a Gorakhpur hospital in the past week and fo...

Paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan, whose name surfaced in the 2017 BRD Medical college tragedy in which several children died allegedly for lack of oxygen, said that he may contest against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur.

Kafeel Khan, who was charged with the death of infants at a state-run hospital in Gorakhpur last year, walked out of jail on Saturday.

Dr Kafeel Khan, the paediatrician in Gorakhpur's largest hospital arrested after the death of 63 children last August, has been ordered to be released on bail. The Allahabad High Court today granted bail to the doctor since the police had already filed charges against the accused.

In a reminder of the tragedy in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur, eight infants have died in a span of 24 hours at the Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Medical College and Hospital in Assam's Barpeta district. Five children died on Wednesday night and three on Thursday, as per hospital records.

Former chief pharamacist of the BRD Medical College today surrendered in a city court in connection with the child deaths in the state-run hospital here last month and was remanded in judicial custody.

The Uttar Pradesh police has arrested a clerk of the BRD Medical College in connection with the death of dozens of children at the state-run hospital last month, the fourth arrest in the case.

A doctor was arrested from Gorakhpur today in connection with the deaths of over 60 children in BRD Medical College and Hospital last month.

A court in Uttar Pradesh's Gorakhpur on Thursday sent suspended BRD Medical college Principal and his wife to 14-day judicial custody in connection with 60 children's deaths within seven days.

NEW DELHI: A 15-year-old schoolgirl in Uttar Pradesh has launched a charity to provide oxygen to impoverished patients after more than 60 people, nearly half of them children, died allegedly due to a lack of oxygen at the main government hospital in her home town Gorakhpur. The patients died from encephalitis, a disease which causes brain inflammat...

Initiating action against officials responsible for the Gorakhpur tragedy in which over 60 children died in five days, the Yogi Adityanath government has removed Additional Chief Secretary (Medical Health) Anita Bhatnagar Jain.

The high-power committee probing the Gorakhpur hospital tragedy today submitted its report to the Uttar Pradesh government.

Terming the deaths of scores of children at a state-run hospital in Gorakhpur as a "government made tragedy", Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath should not try to cover up the matter.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will be on a visit to Gorakhpur tomorrow.

The Allahabad High Court today directed the UP government and the state's director general of medical education to file a detailed counter affidavit within six weeks on a PIL on the death of children in a state-run hospital in Gorakhpur.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared his vision for a "New India" in his Independence Day speech from Delhi's iconic Red Fort today, pledging to build it by 2022, when independent India turns 75. Early in his speech, his shortest in four years at 54 minutes, PM Modi mourned the tragic death of children at a Gorakhpur hospital in the past week and fo...