October 28, 2011 9:13 PM

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4 more children die in B C Roy hospital in Kolkata

Four more child deaths have been reported from Kolkata’s B.C Roy Hospital. With this the total death toll has risen to sixteen since Thursday. Besides this, 12 Child deaths have also been reported at the Burdwan Medical College and Hospital in Burdwan district.Though the crib deaths have raised a question mark on the standard of medical care in pediatric hospitals in the state, hospital authorities claimed that it was not unusual. Burdwan Medical College and Hospital Deputy superintendent Dr.Tapas Kumar Ghosh said that the one-to-three days old babies were underweight and suffering from jaundice, encephalitis and septicemia. He said that doctors did their best to save the lives of the babies, but all were born with critical problems at the hospital where 160 infants were being treated against its capacity of 60 beds.

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