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Gorakhpur: 7 deaths a day 'normal', says UP govt, ignoring there were 23

UP govt insists deaths unrelated to oxygen shortage, yet to explain why 23 children died on Aug 10

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An inside view of a ward of BRD Hospital in Gorakhpur on Friday where at least 30 children died since the past two days, allegedly due to oxygen supply cut (Photo: PTI)

Anoo Bhuyan | The Wire
Faced with outrage at the number of deaths at a Gorakhpur hospital in the last few days, the government of Uttar Pradesh now says that the death of 60 children in five days is not an abnormal figure. “Seven deaths on average per day in this hospital is normal. This is, after all, a major hospital in Gorakhpur, so obviously, people from all over, and from the primary centres, land up here on referrals. Hence numbers of deaths are normally at this range,” said state health minister and government spokesperson Sidharth Nath Singh to The Wire.
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