Jamshedpur: Health team visits MGM for probe into infants' death

  • | Thursday | 13th September, 2018

Not satisfied with original report of the health department submitted earlier the Lokayukta issued directive to the department on July 22, 2018 to conduct fresh enquiry and submit the report. JAMSHEDPUR: A four-member team from the state department of health, medical education and family welfare visited the government-run Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College and Hospital (MGMMCH) to probe the causes behind deaths of 164 infants and newborns within three months in 2017. "We are told that some of the expecting mothers gave birth to under-weight, frail health and malnourished babies resulting in deaths of the newborns within hours of birth but detailed investigation will determine actual cause of the deaths," said Jha.The team arrived for probe into the matter pertaining to spurt of crib deaths on the directive of the state Lokayukta, Justice (retired) D N Upadhyay after city based human rights outfit Jharkhand Human Rights Conference approached Lokayukta in this regard. The team headed by director, medical and health education, L K Jha, inspected the neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU), paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), labour room, children's ward and enquired with the staff on duty about the existing facilities at the said rooms.The team also held talks with the hospital superintendent, S K Jha, to inquire about the shortcomings pertaining to the existing infrastructure and the medical equipment relating to the infant's care room.During, the course of meeting with the civil surgeon, Maheshwar Prasad, visiting team sought to know the status of the availability of the food supplements to the would-be mothers in the district.The implementation of the various government schemes like Janani Suraksha Yojan was also enquired by the team.Jha told that some of the deaths of the newborns have apparently occurred due to poor health of the mothers at the time of admission to the hospital for the delivery of child.

JAMSHEDPUR: A four-member team from the state department of health, medical education and family welfare visited the government-run Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College and Hospital (MGMMCH) to probe the causes behind deaths of 164 infants and newborns within three months in 2017. The team headed by director, medical and health education, L K Jha, inspected the neo-natal intensive care unit (NICU), paediatric intensive care unit (PICU), labour room, children's ward and enquired with the staff on duty about the existing facilities at the said rooms.The team also held talks with the hospital superintendent, S K Jha, to inquire about the shortcomings pertaining to the existing infrastructure and the medical equipment relating to the infant's care room.During, the course of meeting with the civil surgeon, Maheshwar Prasad, visiting team sought to know the status of the availability of the food supplements to the would-be mothers in the district.The implementation of the various government schemes like Janani Suraksha Yojan was also enquired by the team.Jha told that some of the deaths of the newborns have apparently occurred due to poor health of the mothers at the time of admission to the hospital for the delivery of child."We are told that some of the expecting mothers gave birth to under-weight, frail health and malnourished babies resulting in deaths of the newborns within hours of birth but detailed investigation will determine actual cause of the deaths," said Jha.The team arrived for probe into the matter pertaining to spurt of crib deaths on the directive of the state Lokayukta, Justice (retired) D N Upadhyay after city based human rights outfit Jharkhand Human Rights Conference approached Lokayukta in this regard. Not satisfied with original report of the health department submitted earlier the Lokayukta issued directive to the department on July 22, 2018 to conduct fresh enquiry and submit the report.

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