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Just a few days after 30 children were initially reported dead in a medical college in UP’s Gorakhpur, it has come to light that another government hospital in Gonda performed delivery of a baby in the presence of just candle-light’.

A video accessed from the Chapiya Primary Health Centre in Gonda, Uttar Pradesh shows how the hospital’s operation theatre was lit up by a candle, where the deliveries of babies are usually performed.

The staff in the health care centre said the inverter was removed on orders of the superintendent. While there are two generators, none of them work as they are out of fuel.

Considering the aforementioned facts, it is a clear case of medical apathy, just like the one in Gorakhpur that has already claimed more than 70 lives.

There has been no comment on the incident by the senior ministers and the health minister of the state Siddharth Nath Singh, who is currently under pressure due to the tragic event at Baba Raghav Das Hospital in Gorakhpur.

More than 70 people, suffering from acute Encephalitis allegedly died due to complete oxygen cutoff, but the government still maintains that it was not due to shortage of oxygen.