Gorakhpur: Sixty one children, mostly newborns, have died in the last 72 hours at the hospital in Gorakhpur where 70 infant deaths were reported three weeks ago, from various causes including oxygen shortage.
In the last 24 hours, 19 children have died at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College, four of encephalitis. The rest were babies who died in the hospital's neo-natal intensive care unit.