We hold the state government responsible for it. The health minister and the health secretary must immediately tender resignation. "Earlier, Congress spokesperson Manish Tiwari said the chief minister and the health minister should resign taking "moral responsibility" for the deaths. "There are clearly two dimensions to it, that of criminal culpability of all those who are responsible -- the hospital administration, the oxygen supplier and the district administration which is supposed to exercise superintendence over the hospital, and the other is the moral responsibility of the chief minister. "He said that according to reports from the paediatric department of the hospital, 60 children died due to various diseases since August 7.Singh, however, asserted that the deaths were not because of paucity of oxygen.

Source: Economic Times August 12, 2017 09:22 UTC