Impact: UP CM takes cognisance of Kanpur incident, suspends CMS

Lucknow/Kanpur: Taking cognisance of the Kanpur incident in which a child died after being neglected by government-run Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital (aka Hallet Hospital), Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday suspended the health centre's Chief Medical Superintendent (CMS).

It may be mentioned that the probe into the matter was launched in the wake of the news published by Newstrack.com. “The UP government aims at providing the best of health services to the people and vows that it will not spare the insensitive doctors,” said the CM.

The incident:

12-year-old Ansh, who was suffering from high fever, was denied admission to the Lala Lajpat Rai Hospital (LLRH) in UP's Kanpur city on Monday. The emergency section of the hospital had refused to admit the minor boy referring him to a nearby child specialist hospital. According to Kumar, he had to wait in the Hallet Hospital for more than half an hour before its staff denied admission to Ansh.

Moreover, his father Sunil Kumar was not even provided a stretcher for taking the child to the hospital which was over 250 meters from LLRH. Subsequently, Kumar raced his son to the referred health centre carrying him on shoulders. Unfortunately, he was late by the time he could reach there as the doctors of the hospital declared Ansh brought dead.

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