Government oblivion to children's plight in Bihar and Ahmadabad
Child mortality is a growing problem in India and to add woes to the worries the hospital are actually increasing the plight. With faulty services they are pushing India past the threshold of danger.
APART FROM its other shares of problem, child mortality is also on a rise in India, thanks to varied and new diseases and the faulty hospitals facilities. UNICEF had identified in 2009 that India is one of those countries where the child mortality rate was quite high.
While in Bihar people think that encephalitis is claiming lives with growing days, in Ahmedabad, the patients were infected purely due to uncaring attitude of the doctors, whatever now they may say. The disease in Bihar is causing panic among the people as before anything can be done, the child dies away. The children who came under the dreadful impact of the disease reported high fever with fits and phases of unconsciousness. The last three kids to join the number 19 died at Anugrah Narain Medical College and Hospital (ANMCH) in Gaya. Apart from the death rate, around 50 children are admitted with encephalitis. As expected full well from Indian health facilities, the doctors in Bihar is running out of the Japanese encephalitis kits to test for the infection. Authorities are saying that they are doing things or ‘taking measures’ to correct the situation. In 2009, 2007 and 2005 India was hit by encephalitis, yet no cure was invented to combat the disease. Much worse is the case in Ahmadabad, as one can understand that the faults lie with the hospital people, yet no one is doing anything. Meanwhile the hospital authorities on Sunday, at a hurriedly called press conference said that all the 23 children were inflicted with the virus before they were admitted to the hospital (as if no one can look through their lies). To make matters worse the State Health Minister Jay Narayan Vyas has already given a clean chit to Junagadh Civil Hospital authorities and the authorities have promised that they would submit a report to the Government as soon as possible. Shoving of responsibilities would not better the life of all those children who are domed for life, as society shun all those people who so much as utter the word HIV. It is high time that the authorities stop fooling the common man and think of ways to stop doing these things and not how to escape the clutches of Justice.
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