The BJP, which initially targeted the Congress over the infant deaths in Rajasthan, was faced with a similar situation in Gujarat.
Jaipur: Over 600 babies died at six major hospitals across Rajasthan and Gujarat in December last year, agencies reported amid outrage over the alleged lack of life-saving equipment in government medical institutions. The first reports of the kind emerged from the JK Lon Hospital in Rajasthan’s Kota, where 100 infants died in a span of just one month. Even as the BJP accused the ruling Congress of negligence, similar deaths were reported from party-ruled Gujarat too.
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1. As many as 100 infant deaths were reported from Kota’s JK Lone Hospital in December. The National Human Rights Commission, which sent a notice to the Rajasthan government, has claimed that over 50 per cent of the equipment at the institution was found to be defunct.
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