Paediatrician Kafeel Khan addresses a press conference in New Delhi. Two years after over 60 children died in less than a week at the BRD Medical College, Uttar Pradesh government ...
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Paediatrician Kafeel Khan addresses a press conference in New Delhi. Two years after over 60 children died in less than a week at the BRD Medical College, Uttar Pradesh government ...
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Pressure Point
Ward 100, the children’s ward in BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur
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Too Near, Too Far
Sushmita Nishad, 13, of Manbela lives only 10 minutes from BRD Medical College. Her father Manoj took her there too late, after she had fever and delirium for several days. The d...
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The Dead & The Living
Suman Yadav of Bagha Gara lost her first-born twins at BRD, Gorakhpur, the morning after oxygen supply was disrupted
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Uttar Pradesh Congress President Raj Babbar along with party workers detain during a protest in Lucknow against the death of children at (BRD) Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospi...
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A child is shifted to another ward at Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur district.
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Relatives carry a child at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital where over 60 children have died over the past one week, in Gorakhpur.
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Children receive treatment in the Encephalitis Ward at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital where over 60 children have died over the past one week, in Gorakhpur district.
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Candle light march under the banner of All India Majlis-e-ittehad-ul-muslimeen against death of children in Gorakhpur BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur.
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union Health Minister J P Nadda during a press conference after visiting BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur.
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UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur district. More than 30 children have died at the hospital in the span of 48 hours.
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Children receive treatments at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur district.
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Children receive treatments at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur district.
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Children receive treatments in the Encephalitis Ward at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur district. More than 30 children have died at the hospital in the s...
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A man holds a dead baby outside the BRD Medical College in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, where at least 30 children have died since the past two days.
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A relative carries a child at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, where at least 30 children have died since the past two days.
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Children admitted in the state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College where at least 30 children died in the past 48 hours, in Gorakhpur.
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Children admitted in the Encephalitis ward of the state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College. At least 30 children died in the hospital in the past 48 hours, in Gorakhpur.
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Uttar Pradesh Health Minister Siddharth Nath Singh and Medical Education minister Ashutosh Tandan visits BRD Medical College where at least 30 children died in the past 48 hours, ...
The expertise the imprisoned doctor offered to the fight against COVID-19 comes from a self-driven struggle with encephalitis, which kills thousands every year
It’s the media that made me a hero and then made me a villain, Dr Kafeel Khan tells Outlook in an exclusive interview, a year after the Gorakhpur hospital tragedy.
Dr Kafeel Khan, who has been in the jail for the past seven months in the Gorakhpur hospital tragedy case, is a victim of conspiracy, said Indian Medical Association.
"15 infant were younger than one month. Six of the remaining 15, who were older than a month, passed away due to encephalitis. Others died due to various other reasons,"
The court fixed October 8 as the next date of hearing in the matter and asked the Centre and the state to submit their proposed action plan to deal with the menace.
The governments, both at the Centre and states, are sadly fighting the symptoms rather than the disease and while doing so are virtually killing the public education