No one thought of Jharkhand last month when the deaths of scores of children in a government hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, caused widespread outrage in the country. RIMS and MGM are the biggest state-run hospitals in Jharkhand. Sherwal, maintained that the deaths were "nothing unusual" in a tertiary hospital like RIMS. The task of equipping the state's primary, secondary and tertiary health centres to handle emergencies also remains. Jharkhand, formed in 2000, has an under-five mortality rate of 44, marginally better than the national average of 45.

Source: India Today September 08, 2017 18:56 UTC