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Gorakhpur deaths: Parents made to run around for blood, medicines, cotton, now post-mortems

By: Eastern Eye Staff

Children admitted at BRD Medical College collapsed before their parents eyes. Parents say they had spent hours trying to get doctors to attend their children, arrange for medicines including basic cotton gauze and glucose injections themselves, running around for blood, and seeking answers. Now, the wait has begun for death certificates and post-mortems.  On August 7, Brahmdev, 30, a farmer from Bagagada village in Gorakhpur, for the first time noticed the oxygen-level indicator outside the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at BRD Medical College hospital. “There were three levels — normal, high and low. On August 7, the indicator showed low,” says Brahmdev.  That…

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