Monday, April 07, 2014

8,303 kids, 776 pregnant women died at PMCH in 5 yrs

Press Trust of India: New Delhi: Monday, April 07, 2014.
About 8,000 children and more than 700 pregnant women have died in Bihar's Patna Medical College hospital in the last five years.
In the period between 2009 to 2013, total 8,303 children died of various ailments and 776 women died while delivering babies in the hospital, Chairman Child Care Department said in response to an RTI query.
In 2009, total 995 children died and in 2010 this figure rose to 1,204.