Ahmedabad, January 5: As many as 111 children have died in Gujarat's Rajkot in a month while 85 others have died at a civil Hospital in Ahmedabad, reports stated. According to several Twitter user, the tragedy of infants dying in Kota hospital in Rajasthan is not an isolated trend as nearly 1,235 infants have died in Rajkot alone in a year i.e. 2019. According to a Twitter user, who goes by the Twitter handle @payalmehta100, the reasons for child deaths in Gujarat Hospitals is due to lack of facilities Special Care Units & uncooperative attitude of the hospital staff forcing parents to run from pillar to post.

The user quotes a report by @dave_janak which gives a month-wise detail of the infant deaths in Gujarat. The tweet informs that in a year, the number of child deaths in Gujarat was 1,235 in Rajkot alone. Giving details about the infant deaths, the tweet stated that in January 2019, 122 deaths were reported, in  February, as many as 105 kids died, in March 88 deaths were reported, 77 in April, 78 in May, 88 in June, 84 in July, 100 in August, 118 in September, 131 deaths in October, 110 in November and 134 in December.  Kota Infant Deaths: Mayawati Calls Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot's Comments 'Highly Shameful', Says 'He Should be Sacked'.

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Also, the issue of infant deaths was highlighted in a leading Gujarat daily Divya Bhaskar. The Twitter thread further informs that the in Ahmedabad, the infant deaths in 2019 accounted for 94 in October, 74 in November and 85 in December.

The incident came to light at a time when Kota's J.K. Lon Hospital in Rajasthan is under scanner for nearly 110 infant deaths in a span of over a month due to cold shivering in the hospital. The hospitals are said to have lacked everything a normal hospital should have. The committee formed by the Rajasthan government to probe the lacunae in the hospital resulting in the deaths of kids has confirmed in its report that infants died due to hypothermia, a medical emergency that occurs when the body temperature falls below 95 F (35 C). The normal body temperature is 98.6 F (37 C).

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