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JE toll: 29 in four months
CHIEF MINISTER Mulayam Singh Yadav will visit the Baba Raghav Das Medical College here following an influx of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) patients. As many as 207 suspected JE cases were brought here for treatment in the last four months. Twenty nine deaths were reported in 120 days. Twelve such patients were admitted to the college on Wednesday itself.
Mulayam Singh to visit BRD Medical College
CHIEF MINISTER Mulayam Singh Yadav will visit the Baba Raghav Das Medical College here following an influx of Japanese Encephalitis (JE) patients. As many as 207 suspected JE cases were brought here for treatment in the last four months. Twenty nine deaths were reported in 120 days. Twelve such patients were admitted to the college on Wednesday itself.
At present, 48 suspected JE patients are undergoing treatment in wards 5, 6 and 9.
Reports of cases from Kushinagar, Deoria and Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar and Gonda early in the monsoon have surprised doctors.
Local MLA Dr RMD Agrawal said he handed over a memorandum to the chief minister in Lucknow on Thursday, drawing his attention to the recurrence of the killer disease. He stressed the need to depute child specialists from the Provincial Medical and Health Services to the paediatrics department for the time being. Dr Agrawal demanded deployment of adequate paramedical staff in the medical college to handle the situation.
Agrawal said the chief minister promised to visit the medical college and ensure all facilities for treatment of suspected JE cases.
Meanwhile, resentment is brewing among medical college students over de-recognition of postgraduate degrees in six departments, including Medicine, Paediatrics and Skin.
Medical college staff are preparing to approach to the Medical Council of India to reconsider the decision.
They alleged there were many shortcoming in private medical colleges, but they were let off, while the MCI had dealt firmly with the BRD Medical College.
They said the double standards adopted by the council were condemnable.
