Overview

• The state health department removed Dr. Kumari Vibha of SKMCH and Dr. Abhijeet Singh of PMCH for administrative failure in the girl’s transfer and admission.
• On June 2 the NHRC took suo motu cognisance and summoned Bihar’s chief secretary and police chief for a comprehensive report within fourteen days.
• The nine-year-old Dalit girl, who was raped and stabbed on May 26, died on June 1 after waiting over four hours in an ambulance outside PMCH.
• RJD, Congress and other opposition groups have held protests in Patna and Muzaffarpur, accusing the government of systemic healthcare and law-and-order lapses ahead of the assembly polls.
• Health Minister Mangal Pandey formed a three-member inquiry panel and the government offered Rs 4 lakh to the family, pledging a chargesheet within 10 days and pursuit of a death sentence.