Officials said that 1,470 patients have been admitted to the BRD Medical College since January this year, adding that a total of 310 have died.Lucknow: Sixteen children, including 10 infants, died at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College in Gorakhpur during the last 24 hours, authorities said on Monday.
Ten of the children were admitted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), while six were in the pediatric ICU.
According to reports, 20 patients - including six from Deoria, two from Kushinagar, four each from Gorakhpur and Maharajganj, and one patient each from Basti and Balrampur - afflicted with encephalitis have been admitted to the hospital in the last 24 hours.
As many as three dozen patients, mostly affected by encephalitis, were being treated at BRD Medical College.
Officials said that 1,470 patients have been admitted to the BRD Medical College since January this year, adding that a total of 310 have died.
The BRD Medical College hit the headlines earlier in August when 63 children, including infants, died within a span of one week due to the disruption of oxygen supply.
The FIR was lodged against nine people, including the owner of the oxygen supplying company and the principal of BRD Medical College.
Doctors, however, said the latest deaths did not occur due to lack of oxygen or treatment, but as they were brought to the hospital in a very critical condition.
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