Re: India 2011: Malaria - 233 fatalities to August - Madhya Pradesh 35 fatalities in 2 weeks
Re: India 2011: Malaria - 233 fatalities to August - Madhya Pradesh 35 fatalities in 2 weeks
Madhya Pradesh:
Sack health minister, demands Ajay Singh
Source: DNA | Last Updated 03:55(06/11/11)
Bhopal: Leader of opposition in the state assembly Ajay Singh has demanded removal of Health Minister Narottam Mishra, holding him responsible for the death of 50 children due to falciparum malaria in the state.
Singh also sought a review of the heath programmes in the state since former health minister Ajay Vishnoi who had to quit from the cabinet following corruption charges. The health schemes in the state are not reaching real beneficiaries in the villages, he told media persons.
According to him, more than 17 children died in villages such as Chauphal Pawai and Chauphal Padav, 16 km away from the Sidhi district headquarters in the past 10 days due to malaria.
While deaths continued, district administration did nothing to save the poor children despite advance warning from an Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) who first detected the presence of the killer malaria, Singh decried.
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MP Cong seeks health minister's dismissal for deaths in Sidhi
PTI | 09:11 PM,Nov 05,2011
Bhopal, Nov 5 (PTI) Leader of Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh assembly, Ajay Singh today demanded dismissal of the State Health Minister, Mahendra Herdia, for his failure to prevent 47 deaths due to malaria in the Sidhi district. "If the Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is really concerned about the people of the State, he should dismiss Herdia," the Congress leader told reporters. Ajay said that these deaths had taken place since August and the state government had done nothing to prevent them
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