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Harsh Vardhan named in Bihar children deaths case

  •   Mon, Jun 17 2019 04:05:14 PM

Patna, Jun 17 (IANS): A case was filed on Monday against Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan and Bihar Health Minister Mangal Pandey in a court in Muzaffarpur district on charges of negligence leading to the deaths of 82 children due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in the past fortnight.

Social activist Tamanna Hashmi filed the case in the Muzaffarpur Chief Judicial Magistrate's (CJM) court on Monday.

The petition said that Harsh Vardhan and Mangal Pandey failed to fulfill their duties to control the outbreak of AES, while both had done nothing to create awareness and sensitise people in the affected areas despite the fact that AES had been killing children for years.

The court has fixed June 24 for hearing the case.

Hashmi said that he has filed the case against the accused, Harsh Vardhan and Mangal Pandey, under 323, 308 and 504 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

"Large number of children died due to negligence and lack of infrastructure to give them timely proper treatment", he said.

Harsh Vardhan, accompanied by the Union Minister of State for Health Ashwani Kumar Choubey and the Bihar Health Minister, visited the state-owned Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital in Muzaffarpur on Sunday.
  

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  • SmR, Karkala

    Mon, Jun 17 2019

    Weeks after Bihar gives NDA 39 out of 40 Lok Sabha seats, BJP leaders reciprocate with apathy and insensitivity.
    As many as 100 children have lost their lives in the last 16 days due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES). Bihar’s Health Minister Mangal Pandey was busy traveling to Delhi to discharge his ‘more pressing’ duties i.e. taking part in BJP’s national executive meeting.

    Pandey on 13 June tweeted, “Taking part in BJP’s national executive meeting in New Delhi.” Pandey later visited Muzaffarpur, but not as a concerned minister but an aristocrat, whose arrival at the hospital led to blocking of an ambulance so that the minister’s convoy could pass smoothly without causing discomfort to him.

    Sadly, the glaring hypocrisy of the Indian Medical Association, an umbrella body for the country’s doctors who extended full support for Doctors on strikes, is silent on more than 100 children's death.

    Meanwhile, Pandey had not forgotten to watch the India-Pakistan’s World Cup encounter as he promptly tweeted congratulating the Indian cricket team. While children are still dying due to overcrowding of hospitals, lack of Doctors and medicines.

    Are Bihar children deaths is the victory gift to the nation?

    Jai Hind

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  • El En Tea, Mumbai

    Mon, Jun 17 2019

    Gorakhpur 400 children non supply of oxygen to death
    Why people have failed to complaint on Yogi?

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