Lucknow, Sept 5: With over 350 kids dying, many from an alleged shortage of oxygen, at two state hospitals in Gorakhpur and Farrukhabad within a period of one month, an embarrassed Uttar Pradesh government led by Yogi Adityanath, seems to have launched a cover up exercise.
UP government's ''flip-flop'' was clearly exposed on the deaths at Farrukhabad district hospital, where as many as 49 kids, many of them new born, died allegedly owing to shortage of oxygen and medicine within a span of one month, on the question of acting against the doctors.
The state government, which had, on Monday afternoon, directed for registration of FIRs against the chief medical officer (CMO) and the chief medical superintendent of the hospital after the magisterial probe revealed that the deaths were caused by shortage of oxygen and medicine, made a complete u-turn by the evening and stayed action on the FIRs.
The government rejected the report of the Farrukhabad district magistrate apparently fearing a massive loss of face after Gorakhpur tragedy after ordered his transfer. It even claimed that there was a ''deliberate attempt'' to make it ''sensational''.
Interestingly the government officials had also rejected the Gorakhpur DM probe report in the matter of death of 30 children owing allegedly to a shortage of oxygen at BRD Medical College. Then also the DM report had admitted that supply of oxygen had been disrupted at the hospital for over two hours.
Later a high-level team headed by the chief secretary probed the tragedy and its report denied that oxygen shortage had caused any death.
Now again a high-level team would probe the deaths at Farrukhabad district hospital.
The doctors at the district hospital did not attend the OPD on Tuesday in protest against registration of cases against the CMO and CMS. They have threatened to resign if the cases are not withdrawn.
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