gorakhpur the screams of wailing mothers echo in the corridors of brd medical college in gorakhpur families and attendants try to calm them down but the women who have just lost their babies remain inconsolable nineteen infants died in the neonatal intensive care unit nicu and pediatrics intensive care unit picu of the hospital between august 30 midnight and august 31 midnight parents allege the deaths occurred due to doctors negligencemost of the families at the hospital had already lost their lifes savings in the floods that inundated their villages early this monthnow the death of their kids has broken their spirit the parents are a wreck as they mourn the loss pinki and shashi pratap stood still in a corner the couple from maharajganj had brought their 22day old child to the brd hospital born at a private hospital in maharajganj on august 11 the baby was referred to gorakhpur after he contracted jaundice he was admitted to nicu but died on thursdaythe baby needed to be examined by a surgeon i desperately searched for a surgeon in the hospital but by the time i found one after several requests we were late by almost six hours the baby didnt survive claimed pinkis brother akhilesh kumarthree children died within 90 minutes in nicu on thursday afternoon anoth er couple rinki singh 22 and jawal singh 22 too lost their child at brd hospitalrinki kept staring blankly at a wall waiting for her husband to return with the body of her 12day old baby my child was healthy but the doctors did not allow me to even breastfeed himthey were busy conducting medical tests on him and asking us to get medicines no doctor told us what had happened to our baby and now they tell us he is dead claimed rinki who lives in kushinagar i n another corner of the hospital laxmi devi held her dead niece wrapped in a brown cloth the baby girl who was born to her sister did not survive beyond two days running across the corridor with the corpse clinging to her arms laxmi devi only kept lamenting aloudall has been taken away by floods and the hospital where one comes to survive has only handed us over death rued laxmi devi