BRD Medical College was in news in August when around 63 children died within a span of one week. | Photo: Reuters

Sixteen children, out of which ten were infants, died at the Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Medical College in UP's Gorakhpur, the IANS reported.

Ten out of the sixteen children were admitted in the NICU, while the other six were admitted in the ICU.

According to reports, 20 patients -- including six from Deoria, two from Kushinagar, four each from Gorakhpur and Maharajganj, and one patient each from Basti and Balrampur -- afflicted with encephalitis have been admitted to the hospital in the last 24 hours.

According to IANS, around a dozen patients of encephalitis were being treated at the BRD college.

After this incident, the count of dead in BRD Medical College has gone up to 310. Officials told IANS that around 1,470 patients, mostly with cases of encephalitis, have been admitted in BRD Medical College this year.

In August this year, BRD Medical College was in news when around 63 children died within a span of one week due to unavailability of oxygen. FIR against nine people including the owner of the oxygen supplying company was lodged.

Doctors told IANS that the latest deaths did not occur due to lack of oxygen, treatment or anything else but the fact that they were brought to the hospital in a very critical condition.

(With inputs from IANS)