Incidents such as the recent children deaths at BRD Hospital in Gorakhpur highlight endemic failure of procurement management
10 min read20 Sep 2017The proprietor of Pushpa Sales, which supplied oxygen to Baba Raghav Das Medical College where dozens of children died last month, has been arrested
1 min read17 Sep 2017In other news, 296 children have died at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur so far this month
3 min read31 Aug 2017While there is a debate over the cause of the recent children deaths in Gorakhpur, encephalitis continues to play havoc as sanitation problems remain unsolved
10 min read24 Aug 2017A survey shows availability of children's medicines in the public sector health facilities of Uttar Pradesh is extremely poor, while they cost more in the private sector
1 min read24 Aug 2017Much is being reported about an epidemic. Some say it is par for course in a country as large as India. But how would they cope if it drove them into madness?
17 min read19 Aug 2017Gorakhpur district administration inquiry report blames Lucknow-based oxygen supplier Pushpa Sale for disrupting oxygen supply to BRD Medical College
2 min read17 Aug 2017According to the surveillance report from Uttar Pradesh, Gorakhpur was found to have one of the lowest vaccine coverages
1 min read17 Aug 2017Of the first 30 children deaths on 10-11 August, only five were due to acute encephalitis syndrome or AES and one was due to hepatic encephalopathy
3 min read16 Aug 2017The death of Bahadur Nishad's son Deepak in official records is listed as Sepsis, but Bahadur says he saw doctors struggle with his son for two hours, working on a 'pump' as he calls it, before declaring him dead
4 min read15 Aug 2017The Union Budget contains details about the estimated receipts and the expenditure of the government for a particular fiscal year. The Budget is allotted for the upcoming fiscal year, which runs from 1st April to 31st March of the next year. Here is a quick guide on how the Union Budget is prepared