Tuesday, August 14, 2018

RTI reveals there was oxygen shortage at BRD med college

Lucknow/Gorakhpur:  14.08.2018

An RTI response has revealed that there was in fact a shortage of oxygen cylinders at BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur, on August 11, 2017, the day more than 30 children died in the hospital’s encephalitis and neo-natal wards. The response states that 10 cylinders had been arranged on August 11from suppliers other than the authorized suppliers.

Lucknow-based RTI activist Sanjay Sharma had sought in his August 14, 2017 query information from the state government on nine points pertaining to the deaths at BRD Medical College. “I received the reply in July this year. But no information has been provided on seven points, and it has been stated that the matter is pending in court,” Sharma said.

In response to his query seeking day-wise numbers of oxygen cylinders provided by suppliers other than the authorised ones between August 1 and August 14, 2017, the public information officer (PIO) of the college stated that six cylinders were provided by Anandlok nursing home, Gorakhnath, Gorakhpur, and four by Dr Kafeel Khan, then nodal officer of the hospital, on August 11.

The response vindicates the stand of Dr Khan who had been in the eye of the storm ever since he had said there was a shortage of oxygen because the administration had not made payments to the supplier.

No response has been provided to questions like details of patients who died between August 1and August 14, 2017; the causes of their death and certified copies of their postmortem reports; the supplier companies found guilty in the probe; the rate at which authorized suppliers provided cylinders; a certified copy of the magisterial probe report; and a certified copy of the then principal’s suspension

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