(NDTV)
Hours after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath promised action against the “guilty” at Gorakhpur’s BRD Medical College, where 63 children died last week, Dr kafeel Ahmad khan, under whose watch the oxygen shortage of Thursday took place, was removed by the government.
Dr Khan was in charge of the paediatrics department for a few months. Government sources said he failed to take prompt action even though those in charge of oxygen supply wrote a letter on Thursday, warning about the impending crisis.
The government said funds for oxygen were not released by the hospital administration till August 11, even though it was cleared by August 7. Yogi Adityanath today said, “I was here on the 9th and I categorically asked about encephalitis but no one informed me. We made the payment on August 7. Why didn’t the hospital administration make the payment?”
