Three more children die at NBMCH in Siliguri : The children hailed from Dhupguri, Fulbari and Pradhannagar

SNS, SILIGURI. 26 SEPTEMBER 21 : Three more children died at the North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) in Siliguri in the past 24 hours, sources said today. Two of the children died in the pediatric intensive care unit, it is learnt.

NBMCH sources said a one-month-25-day-old child front Dhupguri in Jalpaiguri, who was referred to the NBMCH as he was suffering from fever, cough and cold, was one of the deaths. An eight month-old baby girl from Fulbari in Siliguri died due to "septic shock with disseminated intravascular coagulation," the sources said.

An 11-year-old child of Pradhannagar in Siliguri also died there, it is learnt. However, NBMCH authorities did not corroborate the information. Earlier, three children suffering from fever and respiratory infection had died there in the past four days-a three-month-old baby girl, who had been referred from the Kharibari hospital died on 22 September, while a four month-old girl of Pradhannagar died on 23 September. A one-month and 13 days old baby boy of Haldibari in Jalpaiguri also died on the same day. Apart from direct fever related cases, a nine- month old baby from Jalpaiguri had died in the neonatal intensive care unit of the NBMCH on 14 September. Paediatricians had said that the baby, who had been admitted on 11 September, was suffering from multiple diseases like congenital heart disease.