more-inAs many as 415 infants and children died at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College hospital in Gorakhpur in August this year, an increase of 51 deaths over the same month last year. As per hospital data, the hospital recorded 234 deaths in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and 181 in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). In August 2016, 364 children died in the hospital. With 29 deaths on the last two days of the month, the figure reached 415. According to BRD principal P.K.Singh, 34 children died in the NICU from August 26 to 29.

Source: The Hindu September 01, 2017 16:18 UTC