Lucknow sources have stated that currently sixteen children, including 10 infants, died at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College in Gorakhpur during the last 24 hours. The authorities said of the children who died, ten were admitted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) while six were in the pediatric ICU.



Meanwhile according to reports the doctors said, 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. Furthermore as many as three dozen patients, mostly affected by encephalitis, were being treated at BRD Medical College. Five patients from Bihar were also being treated there.

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Accordingly the 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. Currently the Adityanath-led government in Uttar Pradesh has little to show in terms of health indicators when compared to Kerala. While the saffron leader's recent visit to the southern state was high on election rhetoric, the aggressive political posturing had little backing in terms of data.


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