5-year-old dies of fever at UP Hospital: 2 doctors terminated, 2 suspended for watching cricket during duty
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Budaun: Following the death of a five-year-old girl from fever at a government medical college hospital in Uttar Pradesh, the health department has terminated the services of two contractual doctors and suspended two others for allegedly failing to attend to her because they were busy watching a cricket match.
The girl's family had alleged that she died because the doctors and the health staff were busy playing cricket instead of treating their daughter.
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