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Harsh Vardhan visits AES-hit Muzaffarpur, death toll rises to 81

  •   Sun, Jun 16 2019 02:21:42 PM

Patna, Jun 16 (IANS): Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Sunday visited Bihar's Muzaffarpur district, where 81 children have died due to Acute Encephalitis Syndrome (AES) in the past fortnight.

Seven children died on Sunday, taking the total number of casualties due to AES to 81, health officials said. Seventy three children had died till Saturday night.

However, unofficial deaths due the disease are said to be over 100 as some children died in villages before being admitted to hospital.

Harsh Vardhan, accompanied by Union Minister of State for Health Ashwani Kumar Choubey and Bihar Health Minister Mangal Pandey, visited the state-owned Sri Krishna Medical College and Hospital (SKMCH).

"The Ministers are holding a closed-door review meeting with the doctors and health officials to take stock of the situation," a district health official said.

Meanwhile SKMCH and private Kejriwal Hospital in the city continue to recieve fresh cases with symptoms akin to AES. The two hospitals are reverberating with the cries and wailing of helpless parents as children continue to die of AES.

According to reports, two children died in Begusarai district and three died in East Champaran district on Saturday.
  

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  • SmR, Karkala

    Mon, Jun 17 2019

    From children's dying due to lack of oxygen in Chief Ministers Yogis' Uttar Pradesh to Encephalitis in Bihar, BJP ruled states' Good governance' health care system seems to be pathetic.

    Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan entry after more than 80 deaths looks like 'special appearance' in Bollywood movie.

    The BJP which supported the Doctors strike in West Bengal which turned to be much communalized and extend the support completely ignored basic health care system in its owned ruled states.

    At the same time, a small state like Kerala very effectively combated the epidemic like 'Nipah'.

    If PM Modi's central government is active, this outbreak would not have repeated. in 2014, 196 deaths from AES were recorded in Bihar.

    In Billion population children's death hardly matters for the BJP government. But if the child raped this becomes a big political issue.
    Jai Hind

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  • Chatty Shetty, mangalore

    Sun, Jun 16 2019

    The dongi CM of UP Bogie Yogi has advice to all the people in the country except his state.
    Such a pathetic situation, which has completely spiralled out of control. Total failure of governance.
    Earlier also in the incident in which many infants died due to no oxygen supply, a muslim doctor was made scapegoat to hide the inefficiency of the administration.

    But still let us forget everything and chant Modi Modi Modi

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