The residents or junior doctors went on strike on Tuesday when agitated relatives of a patient, who had died during treatment, clashed with the medicos.
Three children of a family have died within 48 hours after coming down with fever in a village here, prompting the authorities to dispatch a team of doctors to the area to test other children for diseases like malaria and dengue, according to officials.
With three more children succumbing to encephalitis at the BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, the death toll due to the disease has climbed to 304 in eastern Uttar Pradesh this year.
Overall, since January 1, as many as 144 encephalitis-related deaths have taken place in the hospital, they said.
The encephalitis menace continues unabated in eastern Uttar Pradesh as four more children succumbed to the disease at BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, bringing the toll in the disease to 289.
A bench headed by CJI asked the petitioner to approach the high court.
There have been 1,256 deaths since January this year at the hospital, the principal said.
Seven more children succumbed to encephalitis at the BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, taking the death toll due to the disease in eastern Uttar Pradesh to 390 this year.
Seven more children succumbed to encephalitis since Sunday evening pushing the death toll from the viral infection in Uttar Pradesh's eastern region to 433 this year, officials said.
According to Additional Director (Health) Diwakar Prasad, the child from Mahrajganj district succumbed to the disease at BRD Medical College Hospital on Sunday.
With one more child succumbing to encephalitis, the death toll in the viral disease has mounted to 588 in eastern Uttar Pradesh this year.
Six more children succumbed to encephalitis at the BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, taking the toll in the viral disease in eastern Pradesh to 281 this year.
With four more patients succumbing to encephalitis, the toll in the disease in the eastern districts of Uttar Pradesh has climbed to 275 this year, health officials said on Friday.
12 people have died in the last 24 hours in eastern Uttar Pradesh.
As many as 11 children died on Saturday and until Friday the death toll stood at 60.
Five more children succumbed to encephalitis in Gorapkhpur, taking the death toll in Uttar Pradesh's eastern region due to the viral infection to 445 this year, health officials said on Friday.All the five deaths took place at the BRD Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur.
As many as 15 deaths occurred due to encephalitis in the past 24 hours.
This is the third arrest made by the STF in the case.
More than 100 new cases of Japanese encephalitis were reported on Tuesday even as the death toll rose to 324 and the Uttar Pradesh health department requisitioned 72 lakh vials of vaccine to deal with the epidemic.
'...and the government is suppressing the truth.'
With the fresh arrest, all the nine persons named in the FIR have been sent to custody.
Khan, who was the nodal officer at the state-run hospital's paediatric department, had been hailed as a hero after he reportedly bought oxygen cylinders with his own money during the crisis.
Eight more children succumbed to encephalitis taking the death count from the viral disease to 569 this year in eastern region of Uttar Pradesh, health officials said on Wednesday.
Dr Bhupendra Sharma will now take over as the nodal officer of pediatric department.
The prisons department had on Thursday issued an order for the premature release of Amarmani Tripathi, citing the state's 2018 policy on remission, since they have completed 16 years of imprisonment.
UP government data claims 6.5 deaths a day till August against 16 in 2014, 19 in 2015 and 17 in 2016.
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had hit out at the Congress vice-president, saying the 'yuvraj' sitting in Delhi cannot make Gorakhpur 'a picnic spot'.
'The human tragedy in Gorakhpur has left me jolted,' he said.
Nearly 79 children have died due to suspected Japanese encephalitis or brain fever in Gorakhpur district of eastern Uttar Pradesh and many more are undergoing treatment, a senior official said on Wednesday.
Dr Kafeel Khan and 80 others have been included in the list of history-sheeters in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh and they will be on the radar of police, officials said.
If any party gives me a ticket I am ready, Khan said .
The infants had died allegedly because of disruption in oxygen supply due to pending payments to the supplier, a charge stoutly refuted by the state government.
Doctor Kafeel Khan of Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College and Hospital, who had been suspended in 2017 after the death of 70 children due to lack of oxygen supply to the hospital, has been dismissed, a senior government official said in Lucknow on Thursday.
500 patients are still under treatment across various hospitals in the eastern Uttar Pradesh.
Twenty-eight more people have succumbed to Japanese encephalitis in Uttar Pradesh taking the death toll to 185.
14 more people died of suspected Japanese encephalitis in Gorakhpur district of Uttar Pradesh taking the toll upto 129 on Sunday, a health official has said.
He was suspended from Gorakhpur's BRD Medical College after several children died there in 2017, apparently due to the lack of oxygen cylinders at the government hospital.
Tandon also assured of a high level probe into the multiple deaths, headed by the principal secretary. An action will be taken after a due report is taken out.
'The administration was not ready for (my) release, but I have been released because of the prayers of people.'
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