According to state health minister Raghu Sharma, the committee, which includes medical education commissioner Shivangi Swarnkar and other officials, will visit the J K Lon Hospital and investigate every case of infant death at the health facility.
Expressing grief over the deaths, Birla stressed on proper monitoring in the hospital. I have spoken to the hospital management and got a report on the matter. Whatever facts come out, I would discuss it with the state government, the MP told the media after the meeting.
Hospital Superintendent Dulara said a newly constructed 12-bed NICU (neonatal intensive care unit) level-3 ward, which was ready to go functional, was made operational on Friday with 10 nursing staff.
Kota District Collector Ujjawal Rathore, who also attended the meeting, said some pieces of equipment at the hospital were certainly reported to be lying unused, but their number is not considerable .
Panel to probe infants’ death in Kota
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Nine infants died at the State-run J.K. Lon Hospital on Wednesday and Thursday
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Nine infants died at the State-run J.K. Lon Hospital on Wednesday and Thursday The Rajasthan government on Friday appointed a four-member committee to investigate the death of nine newborns at J.K. Lon Hospital in Kota during the last two days. The committee will submit its report within three days, after inspecting the hospital and looking into the medical facilities available in the institution.
Five infants died at the hospital during Wednesday night and four more on Thursday. All of them were one to four days old. The death of an unusual number of newborn babies in the hospital in December last year had also generated a controversy.
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Health Minister forms a committee to investigate the case; the committee will investigate and submit its report in three days Representational Image
Jaipur: Health Minister Dr Raghu Sharma has constituted a committee to investigate the death of infants at JK Lone Hospital in Kota. Medical Education secretary Shri Vaibhav Galriya has issued orders in this regard.
The Health Minister taking this matter seriously has ordered to constitute a four-member team. The committee includes Medical Education Commissioner Smt Shivangi Swarnkar; Director, RCH Dr Lakshman Singh Ola; Additional Principal and Senior Professor, Paediatrics Department, Dr Amarjeet Mehta and Additional Principal and Senior Professor, Paediatrics (Medicine), SMS Medical College Dr Rambabu Sharma.