Lucknow, Bareilly (UP): On Wednesday, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath ordered the suspension of a doctor and departmental proceedings against another after reports of negligence in attending to an infant at a government hospital in Bareilly surfaced, officials said.
The chief medical superintendent (CMS) of the men’s wing at the government hospital, Dr Kamlendra Swaroop Gupta, was suspended after the death of the four-day-old girl, an official release stated. Departmental proceedings have also been ordered against Dr Alka Sharma, CMS, women’s wing.
“A critically-ill child was brought to the men’s wing of the hospital, where paediatricians were available. Instead of stablising the child, her family was sent to the women’s wing, from where the child was sent back,” officials said.
The girl was born at a private hospital on June 15 and was brought in to the government hospital by her parents due to her difficulty in breathing. She died after being shuttled from one wing of the hospital to another, reports say.
The child’s family told PTI that they were made to run from one wing to another for over three hours due to which the infant died.
(PTI)