Lucknow : In vengeful retaliation, the UP government dismissed Dr. Kafeel Khan from service tying him with accusations over children’s death at Gorakhpur hospital in September of 2017. The dismissal comes even as the pediatrician is legally fighting to have his suspension overturned.
In the incident, more than 60 children were suffocated to death after the oxygen supplier cut off supplies to the hospital owing to payment arrears. The Yogi government refuses to acknowledge this backdrop however and instead maintains the children died from illnesses including Japanese encephalitis that became fatal owing to laxity on part Dr. Kafeel . A departmental inquiry that followed Khan’s suspension, absolved the doctor of all charges relating to negligence, corruption and dereliction of duty.
More relevant: Gorakhpur is Yogi Adityanath’s electoral constituency and on the tragic day, Dr. Kafeel arranged for oxygen cylinders at his personal cost to allay the crisis. The benevolent act, however, proved to be his undoing – one that iplaced him on target list of Yogi government since the day.
