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.