The toll may rise with dozens more children undergoing treatment in packed hospital wards, where television pictures showed several children to a bed. The state’s health minister came in for particular flak after asking reporters about the score in India’s cricket match against Pakistan on Sunday during a news conference on the crisis. “Bihar’s Health Minister Mangal Pandey seems more worried about cricket score than the death of children,” tweeted Randeep Surjewala of the opposition Congress party. Media have been barred from entering the facility and the families of sick children asked not to crowd the premises. It said in 2014 an Indo-US expert team had saved 74 percent of sick children through a simple medical intervention.

Source: The Express Tribune June 18, 2019 12:11 UTC