Official suspended over boy’s death

“The CM has suspended CMS of Kanpur Medical College R C Gupta with immediate effect,”  he said in a statement issued late on Tuesday night. Yadav said the state government was committed to provide better medical facilities to the people and insensitive doctors would not be tolerated. The UP State Commission for Protection of Child Rights had also ordered a probe into the Kanpur incident where a man alleged that his 12-yearold son died due to negligence of the doctors at JSVM Medical College. 

“We have issued a notice to the district magistrate, who had submitted his reply that a two-member committee has been constituted to probe into the incident,” UPSCPCR chairperson Juhie Singh had said. She said the commission had asked the district magistrate to get the matter probed and submit his  report within a week. “We have asked that in case he was not authorised to take action, then he should identify the people who committed laxity and send his report,” she said. Sunil Kumar brought his son Anshu, to the emergency ward of Hallet hospital of JSVM Medical College in Kanpur on August 28 and alleged that doctors asked him to go from one department to another which he did while carrying his son on his shoulders and the boy died later.