Father taking son’s body in bus: Govt seeks report
Worried about the apparently unheard-before shocking incident making headlines, Nabanna has asked the district health administration to submit the report as soon as possible.
Worried about the apparently unheard-before shocking incident making headlines, Nabanna has asked the district health administration to submit the report as soon as possible.
According to officials, following the handover, the Central Public Works Department (CPWD) will undertake infrastructure development work.
As the couple left the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH), Nityananda Singha and Ranjita Singha "nicknamed" the baby "Lucky."
The accused were produced in the Siliguri additional judicial magistrate court, which sent them in four days' police remand today, sources said.
A team of police personnel led by assistant commissioner of the detective department Rajen Chhetri visited the ward and examined the CCTV camera footage.
Six children died due to other diseases, like low birth weight, heart failure, shock with hypertensive encephalopathy, and neonatal cardiac failure in the past 24 hours, the sources said. Altogether, 29 children have been admitted there, including three referred from Jalpaiguri.
NBMCH authorities said a total of eight children suffering from fever and acute respiratory infections (ARI) have died there since 1 September. Sources said five children suffering from sepsis, preterm, low birth weight and other diseases died in the last 24 hours.
A nine-month-old baby from Birpara in Alipurduar district, who had been admitted in the NBMCH yesterday, had been suffering from severe pneumonia and low birth weight, the sources said.
Earlier, three children suffering from fever and respiratory infection had died there in the past four days-a three-month-old baby girl, who had been referred from the Kharibari hospital died on 22 September, while a four-month-old girl of Pradhannagar died on 23 September.
"The teenager earlier was admitted to other hospitals due to his chronic illness. His intestines have come out of his abdomen and we were planning to restore them through surgery, but as he has also been suffering from malnutrition, the doctors were taking time for the surgery,"
