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  • Girl died after falling in drain

    Girl died after falling in drain

    Hyderabad: The poor infrastructural facilities in the so-called global city came to fore once again as a 11-year-old girl died after she fell into a pit on the road near her home following a heavy spell of rain on Saturday morning.

    Police said the girl died after being washed away in the drain at Secunderabad. The girl’s body was retrieved after the police, rescue personnel and residents joined hands to take her out of the drain. The girl had stepped out of her home along with her 15-year-old brother to buy milk from a nearby store.

    The State Government claims it was striving to make the city one of the top 30 cities in the world. But at the ground level, it is unable to avoid such grave incidents.

    This summer, the city is witnessing frequent unseasonal rains and monsoon is just a month away but the GHMC is yet to start pre-monsoon works like desilting of nalas. No serious efforts to make the city monsoon-ready has been taken. Between the last monsoon and now, the areas that get flooded still face the same threat.

    GHMC Mayor Vijayalakshmi visited the site of the incident and expressed her anger over officials about the incident and suspended two civic body officials and announced ex gratia of Rs 2 lakh to the kin of the girl.

    Vijayalakshmi said regular meetings are held with GHMC officials on the condition of roads and other civic issues in the city and they are told that such incidents should not happen.

    This incident has led to a war of words between BJP and BRS. Union Minister G Kishan Reddy, who visited the place, alleged that lack of coordination between GHMC and the water board in executing civic works led to the girl’s death.

    Reacting to this, Animal Husbandry Minister T Srinivas Yadav asked Kishan Reddy to spell out what he has done as Member of Parliament during the last four years and claimed that massive works are happening in the city under the Strategic Nala Development Programme. But so far neither the MAUD department nor GHMC has stated what short-term and long-term measures they would take to avoid such incidents before the monsoon enters the city in June. But no one is ready to take responsibility and ensure that such incidents do not happen

  • Six day old girl died in government hospital of Bargur

    Six day old girl died in government hospital of Bargur

    KRISHNAGIRI: A six-day-old female baby allegedly died of choking while being breastfed by her mother in the Bargur government hospital in the wee hours of Wednesday. Health officials, however, suspect it could be a case of female infanticide. This is the third such incident in a government hospital in the district since August last year.

    According to sources, the 23- year- old woman from Bargur was admitted in the hospital on March 16 and delivered a baby girl the next day through C-section. She already has a two and a- half- year-old girl child. Around 5 am on Wednesday, relatives of the woman complained to the duty doctor that the baby was not responding after being breastfed around 4 am. Suspecting that she could have suffered aspiration, the doctor examined the baby and declared her dead.

    “We suspect foul play in the death, and have informed higher officials in the health department, The body will be sent for autopsy,” an official from the hospital told TNIE. Subsequently, the baby’s father has lodged a complaint in Bargur police station. Later in the day, the body was sent to Government Krishnagiri Medical College Hospital for autopsy.

    A duty doctor in the Bargur hospital said the baby was in good health when she checked her around 11 pm on Tuesday and 2 am on Wednesday. Joint Director of Health Services P Paramasivan told that action will be taken after the post-mortem report is received.

    It may be recalled that in August the day-old female baby, the third child of a couple from Kelamangalam, died in similar circumstances at the Hosur government hospital. In another incident, a female baby died within 12 hours of birth at Shoolagiri UPHC in October.

    Paramasivan said they are yet to receive the autopsy reports in the two cases. Deputy Director of Health Services G Ramesh Kumar said he would inquire into the deaths. Collector Deepak Jacob, who assumed office last month, was unaware of the two deaths. “The Bargur death could be a case of infant mortality. The health department will check and work against female infanticide,” he said.