Deep Chand had stepped out to buy medicines for his 10-day-old son, admitted to the neo-natal ward of the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur. Though the government has denied oxygen shortage, parents and eyewitness accounts show how the situation spiraled out of control since Thursday. Grieving relatives of a child who died at the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur. “I found my son dead when I returned with bottles of blood and medicine. Most of the parents said the doctors did allow them to see their ailing children and even misbehaved with them.

Source: Hindustan Times August 12, 2017 04:52 UTC