Monday, August 14, 2017

The death of innocent children due to Govt. apathy

60 children have reportedly been died at BRD hospital in Gorakhpur due to non-supply of oxygen there. It is nothing but the criminal negligence. Gorakhpur is not an ordinary town of Uttar Pradesh. It is the parliamentary constituency of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. He has been representing Gorakhpur in Lok Sabha for the last 25 years. It has been the bastion of BJP for more than 35 years. Yogi Adityanath had also been the Manhanth of Baba Gorakhnath Mandir before being elected as CM. In the given importance of Gorakhpur, when the criminal negligence of such magnitude can be committed in the hospital there, what can be expected of other hospitals in Uttar Pradesh? The death of children is not new to BRD hospital Gorakhpur. Children have have been dying of encephalitis there for the last 30 years. But this is the first time that innocent and poor children died due to the cutting of oxygen supply to the hospital. It is also surprising that CM Yogi had visited the BDR hospital Gorakhpur on August 9. He had reviewed the functioning of the hospital. Why was the shortage of oxygen supply not brought to his notice? Oxygen supply was stopped because of the non-payment of the dues of the company with the govt. Why was payment not made in time to avoid any shortage of oxygen? All these things must be investigated thoroughly and awarded deterrent punishment to all those who are found guilty. It appears to be the case of criminal negligence by the state health ministry and hospital authorities responsible for ensuring the supply of oxygen. When media highlighted the tragedy and inefficiency of the Yogi govt. for their failure to pre-empt it, Chief Minister Yogi Aditya Nath along with his Health Minister Siddharth Nath Singh and Medical Education minister held press conference to present govt. side of the story. They blamed media to highlight the tragic death of the children in an exaggerated way and made jugglery of statics to show that in the month of August in the previous govt. there had been much more number of death of children. UP Health Minister Siddharth Nath Singh's insensitivity also came to the fore when he said Children had to die in the month of August. Most of the time in CM's press conference was passed in praising the promptness shown by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in asking him to take stock of the situation. It clearly appeared from CM Yogi's press conference that he was more interested in praising PM than taking action to ease the pain of the mothers who have lost their children. Prime Minister Narendra Modi likes tweeting on every incident of importance or concern in the nation, but he has not tweeted even a single word on Gorakhpur tragedy as it has taken place in the regime of his party and the CM of the state, also happens to be his lieutenant. This is nothing but the apathy of UP govt. and hospital authorities that the 60 children died. Gorakhpur hospital's tragic incident has exposed the inefficiency of the Yogi govt. To cover up govt. failure, CM and his ministers tried their best to put blame on media and the month of August. But the ground reality tells a different story. The children died of non-supply of oxygen. They were killed. A case of criminal negligence must be instituted against the authorities concerned in UP govt., health ministry and hospital staff. CM Yogi must ask his Health Minister to resign because he has completely failed in running his ministry efficiently. His statement that children have to die in the month of August clearly reflects his insensitivity to the loss of lives of poor and innocent children. The guilty must be punished as it is a case of murder.

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