Gorakhpur: Allahabad HC refuses to put stay on arrest of BRD's anesthesia dept. HOD

The Allahabad High Court on Monday, rejecting the plea, had refused to put stay on the arrest of Head of the Anesthesia department Satish Kumar in Gorakhpur's Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College children death case.

With 16 more deaths, including one due to Encephalitis, the death toll in BRD Medical College, since August, has risen to 415.

Last year, the death toll of infants and children was 364.

Earlier, over 70 children had died in the same hospital due to lack of oxygen supply in a week and another 70 in four days, thereafter. The hospital, as well as the government, had received flak over the negligence.

On August 23, an FIR was registered against nine persons, including the suspended principal of BRD Medical College, Dr Rajiv Mishra and two officials from the oxygen supplying agency the Pushpa Sales Private Limited.

The Anti-Corruption court had remanded suspended principal of BRD medical college Rajiv Mishra and his wife Poornima Shukla, to 14 days judicial custody in connection with the matter.