30 children die in Gorakhpur BRD hospital in last 48 hours

Gorakhpur: At least 30 children have died within 48 hours at Gorakhpur's Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College Hospital.

Professor Dr D.K. Srivastava, Head of the department of Community Medicine, confirmed the deaths.

"15 infant were younger than one month. Six of the remaining 15, who were older than a month, passed away due to encephalitis. Others died due to various other reasons," Srivastava told ANI.

Earlier, the Gorakhpur hospital was under the heat after more than 60 children died in a span of six days.

In last month, Medical Dialogus team had earlier reported that after the number of deaths cases at Gorakhpur's Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College, the hospital again had reported the sixteen more deaths of children in short span of 24 hours.

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