After 70 children’s death, hospital underwent a makeover to welcome Yogi!

The Hindu
August 14, 2017

Gorakhpur, Aug 14: In 24 hours the Baba Raghav Das Medical College hospital at Gorakhpur underwent a makeover, ahead of the visit of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, along with Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda.

Police personnel deployed inside the sprawling campus of the hospital on Saturday were stationed even inside the wards on Sunday to regulate relatives of patients and visitors.

The narrow corridor connecting the “100-bed encephalitis ward” with the canteen in the middle of the hospital was sprinkled with bleaching powder and four colourful dustbins were put in a row. At the glass door of the ward some young policemen and women were on their toes and not allowing anyone to go inside.

At one far corner of the corridor Baby Kumari of Chauri-Chaura was in tears as she was not allowed to see her son Sangam Kumar inside the ward. On the intervention of The Hindu the woman was allowed in.

The tiled floors and walls had been washed; the gurneys and trolleys to carry sick patients neatly arranged in a row; the ill-lit places lit up; the smell of urine and stale food filling the air had vanished and plastic bags of patients’ relatives scattered all over had been removed.

Even the canteen area, where one plate of food is available for ₹15 for patients’ relatives, was in order. The army of stray dogs had been chased away and the milling caretakers of the patients not to be seen.

The doctors appeared extra attentive, the nurses running from one bed to another and the ward boys, wearing plastic caps and rubber gloves, were busy ensuring that everything looked neat and clean. “CM saheb aa rahe hain, sir…kuch bhi gad-bad hua to sidhe napa jayenge (CM is coming, sir…if anything goes wrong, dismissal will follow next)”, said a ward boy.

At one bed in the encephalitis ward two-three nurses were seen attending to the children, with doctors giving them necessary instructions from the prescriptions. “Where were all these amenities a day back? It seems we’ve come to some big private hospital today,” grandfather of a child admitted in the ward told The Hindu.

However, death of children continued. Bhikhari Yadav of Bhatni in U.P. came out of the ward with the body of his four-year-old son Sumit Kumar in his arms. Seeing it his wife broke down.

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June 4,2020

New Delhi, Jun 4: India's Defence Secretary Ajay Kumar tested positive for COVID-19 on Wednesday, following which the defence ministry carried out a massive contact-tracing exercise, official sources said.

Kumar's condition is stable and he is currently under home-quarantine, they said.

At least 35 officials working at the ministry's headquarters in South Block in the Raisina Hills have been sent on home quarantine after reports of Kumar testing positive for the infection emerged on Wednesday morning.

There was no official comment on Kumar's health condition. The defence ministry spokesperson refused to comment on the issue.

It is learnt that Defence Minister Rajnath Singh did not attend office as part of a precautionary measure.

The offices of the defence minister, the defence secretary, the Army Chief and the Navy Chief are on the first floor of the South Block.

The sources said all laid down protocols on contact-tracing and quarantining of people are being scrupulously followed.

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January 21,2020

Lucknow, Jan 21: Defending his brainchild, the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), Union home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday said the new law will not be scrapped despite the countrywide protests against it.

Addressing a rally here to drum up support for the CAA, Shah also declared that construction of a Ram temple "touching the skies" in Ayodhya will begin within three months.

He said there is no provision in the amended law for taking anyone's citizenship away. "A canard is being spread against the CAA by the Congress, SP, BSP, and Trinamool Congress. The CAA is a law to grant citizenship," he added.

"I want to say that irrespective of the protests this will not be withdrawn," he added.

Shah challenged Congress leaders to hold a discussion with him on CAA at a public forum.

He named Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav, Bahujan Samaj Party's Mayawati and TMC chief Mamata Banerjee while throwing the "challenge".

Congress has become blind due to vote bank politics,"he said. He also blamed the Congress for Partition.

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June 19,2020

New Delhi, Jun 19: India on Friday added 13,586 new COVID-19 cases for the first time in a single day, pushing the tally to 3,80,532, while the death toll rose to 12,573 with 336 new fatalities, according to the Union Health Ministry data.

In some positive news, the number of recoveries crossed the two lakh-mark and stands at 2,04,710, while there are 1,63,248 total COVID-19 active cases, according to the updated official figure at 8 am.

One patient had migrated.

"Thus, around 53.79 percent patients have recovered so far," an official said.

The total number of confirmed cases include foreigners. 

India registered over 10,000 cases for the eighth day in a row.

Of the 336 new deaths reported till Friday morning, 100 were in Maharashtra, 65 in Delhi, 49 in Tamil Nadu, 31 in Gujarat, 30 in Uttar Pradesh, 12 each in Karnataka and West Bengal, 10 in Rajasthan, six in Jammu and Kashmir, five in Punjab, four each in Haryana and Madhya Pradesh, three in Telangana, two in Andhra Pradesh and one each in Assam, Jharkhand and Kerala.

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