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Jharkhand denies starvation death claims, blames medical conditions, age

Civil society activists disagreed with the investigations and questioned the findings on grounds that all evidences weren't considered before arriving at the conclusion

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Forty of these 52 infant deaths were in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and 12 in the pediatric intensive care unit. Photo: Reuters

Sanjeeb Mukherjee
Jharkhand reported around 18 cases of alleged starvation deaths between December 2016 and November 2018. However, subsequent investigations done by the state government didn’t find any evidence of starvation and showed that most deaths occurred because of medical conditions, including age. This probe has infuriated civil society activists. The activists disagreed with the state investigations and questioned the findings on grounds that all evidences weren’t considered before arriving at the conclusion. Recently, the state sent a report to the Centre on the deaths, looking at various aspects of each of the incidents. However, the civil society activists said the report

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