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Gorakhpur horror: Medical College's endless tale of lack of money, staff

How the medical college struggled with money and manpower for years

Gorakhpur horror: Medical College's endless tale of lack of money, staff
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BRD Medical College’s struggle with funds for encephalitis. Photo: PTI

Manoj Singh | The Wire
The management of the institution has been so abysmal in the last few years that tragedies like these have been a daily occurrence

The deaths of 23 children in 24 hours, possibly due to a lack of oxygen at BRD Medical College in Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath’s parliamentary constituency of Gorakhpur, has jolted the country suddenly. But the truth is that the management of the institution has been so abysmal in the last few years that tragedies like these have been a daily occurrence.

It is just that when the number of daily deaths shot up, it caused