Parents jump to death after boy dies of dengue, centre orders inquiry


New Delhi, Sep 12 (PTI): In a tragic case, the parents of a seven-year-old boy who died of suspected dengue after allegedly being denied admission by two prominent private hospitals here committed suicide by jumping from a four- storeyed building in south Delhi's Lado Sarai.

The deceased were identified as Laxmichandra and Babita Rout, both natives of Odisha, said DCP (south) Prem Nath, adding that the couple has left behind a one-page suicide note in Odia, in which they written that "it is nobody's fault" and the "the decision" was theirs.

The couple's only son, Avinash, died of suspected dengue on September 8 after allegedly being denied admission at two prominent private hospitals on the previous day.

Taking cognisance of the matter, Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain has ordered issuance of show-cause notice to the two hospitals, a senior government official said.

The Union Health Ministry has ordered an inquiry into the case.

Health Minister JP Nadda said that the "guilty will not be spared". "Ordered inquiry into incident reported in media involving death of child in Delhi due to Dengue and suicide by parents. Guilty won't be spared," the minister said in a tweet.

The couple's bodies were discovered by a neighbour on the intervening night between Thursday and Friday. The couple had their arms tied together with a stole.

The police have initiated an inquest proceeding into the incident under Section 174 CrPC. No case has been registered so far in the matter.

Laxmichandra worked with a private company and the family had been living for more than one year in a two-room rented apartment at Lado Sarai, said a police official.

The dengue death toll in the national capital now stands at five although the Municipal Corporation is yet to include three deaths in the official list.

According to municipal corporation data, 1,259 cases of dengue have been reported in Delhi this year till September 5 with at least 428 cases coming in the first week of this month.

  

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  • shaji, mangalore

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    It is shame to Modi who is canvassing worldwide teeling india is shining and sab ka vikas sab ka saath. However, he is only after vikaas of industrialists and taking delegation of industrialists with him wherever he goes. It is as if he is concerned of industrialists only and poors are not ever considered as iNidans. Poors are being ignored by this feku and industrialists appeasing Govt. Jai bharat. BJP Govt are busy in banning cow meat in their states making a way to transport cows to Gujarat for beef exporting factories owned by bjp sympathizers.

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  • Clifford, Mangalore

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    Guilty will not be spared.
    They will get license to open new hospital !!!

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  • Charles D'Mello, Pangala

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    Tragic incidence...If they have dialed Jain or Kejriwal...the moment they were denied admittance of their son. they would have been alive.

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  • jeetendra hegde, mumbai

    Sun, Sep 13 2015

    Hhhh ..you know about a teacher who met kejri to tell teachers problems...?.Next day she is suspended.Govt should provide health card to every citizen (specially for poor one )so that in emergency patient can be admitted by the hospital without demand for advance and treatment should be started..

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  • shahnawaz kukkikatte, dubai/udupi

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    Mitron..This is meant by sab ka saath sab ka vikas..Taxpayers money must be spent on poors needs n not on foreign tours..

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    Government is busy concentrating on MEAT ...

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  • hussain, mangalore

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    it is very tragic death. Though poor primary health care in India people look towards private hospital. even if fate of private hospitals are like this what next????

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  • Ronald, Mangalore

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    Very Sad incident.
    RIP
    *"guilty will not be spared"*
    ministers and politicians common dialog every state.
    We can not see any butcher punished so far.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sat, Sep 12 2015

    Are you sure we are Progressing ...

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