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Neglected Children Die in Government Home in New Delhi
Five of these children were abandoned newborns and four others had suffered from some disorder or other. Most of the dead were girls. They died slow deaths in the home, which presents a dilapidated picture, what with broken windowpanes and is generally unkempt.
With just one caretaker for a home that accommodates 15 children, it is no wonder that even minor ailments prove fatal. Medical attention doesn’t seem to be any priority there.
A Right to Information application earlier this year blew the lid off this death trend when the National Human Rights Commission data revealed as many as 16 children have died at the Anukriti Balika on Jail Road, Hari Nagar in 2007-08.
But investigations by the Hindustan Times newspaper showed that the actual number was 12 and all deaths had taken place after August 2007.
“Most of the children who were admitted in the home were in extremely poor health,” a government official explained.
Data from the home revealed that five newborns from Safdarjung Hospital died within months of their admission in the home. The seven slightly bigger kids (from six months to four years of age) died after prolonged illnesses.
Four of them were either physically challenged or had some health disorder since birth and had apparently been abandoned because of that.
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