Four more babies lost their lives in Kolkata's B C Roy's Children's Hospital, besides twelve newborns in the Burdwan Medical College, taking the death toll in two government hospitals in West Bengal to 29 on Friday. Through the cribs death it has raised a question as to medical care in the paediatric hospitals in the state, and the hospital authorities claimed that there was nothing unusual about it. Authorities said today that so far twelve babies have died at Burdwan Medical College and other hospitals in the district and four at the B C Roy's Children's Hospital since yesterday.
Burdwan Medical College and Hospital Deputy Superintendent Tapas Kumar Ghosh said that the one-to –three days old babies were underweight and suffering from jaundice, encephalitis and septicemia. He said that the doctors did their best to save the lives of the babies, but all were born with critical complaints at the hospital where 160 infants were being treated against is capacity of 60 beds. In Kolkata, at the B C Roy Children's Hospital, another four babies lost their lives raising the death tol to 17 in the past three days.
Superintendent Pal said that there was nothing unusual about the death of the babies , mostly below one month, as they were admitted in the hospital in a critical condition. And added that on an average , five infants death occurred in the hospital of the daily admission of nearly 300, mostly referred by District Hospitals. Pal admitted that the hospitals were overburdened with patients referred from district hospitals and they tried to give the best of their care to babies who were admitted in the hospital. The Health department yesterday, gave a clean chit to the hospital after conducting an internal inquiry into the matter.
Director of Medical Education Sushanta Banerjee said no lapse was found in the medical treatment of the babies, who were brought in a moribund condition.
News reported by AR for Newsvision
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