Gorakhpur: The Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has Suspended Dr Rajeev Misra, principal of the Gorakhpur’s Baba Raghav Das Medical College due to his negligence which made for the death of innocent children, where 30 children died in 48 hours, 63 children including new born, have died at a hospital in the last five days, but he said that “he was the responsible for the deaths, but I sent multiple reminders to the department for the oxygen supplier’s about the outstanding dues, Dr Misra told after his suspension was made in the video conference that he wrote at least Three letters to the health government on 3rd, 9th July and on 1st August, but delay in payments because the funds hadn’t received in time, funds were approved on 5th Aug and we made the payment on 11th August, it was not our fault, but disagree with the Yogi Adityanath government that he took too long to release funds needed to pay for the oxygen suppliers
At a joint press conference with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Health Minister Siddhartha Nath Singh and Medical Education Minister Ashutosh Tandon said that “medical college principal, Dr Misra’s request for money had reached the administration only on 4 August and sanction orders were issued the next day, The implication was made by the state government very fast once it received but it was the problem with the hospital that had been withheld on the payments.
