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Braving biting cold conditions, an aggrieved family has camped itself on a dusty pavement right across the Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh area of Delhi.
The family is seeking justice for their baby – who was wrongly declared dead on 30 November by the private facility.
The baby, one of the twins born at the upscale hospital, died during treatment at a nursing home a week later. The other was a still-born.
The Max Hospital's licence was cancelled by the Delhi government following an uproar by the family members and the general public over the grave mistake by the facility.
But the hospital resumed its operations on Wednesday, after it got relief from an appellate authority, which stayed the Delhi government's order canceling its licence.
Him and his father Kailash Kumar, 46, along with eight other family members, who include four women, are protesting against the decision of the appellate authority.
Squatting under the open sky, Kailash Kumar said the family is now seeking help from Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
The family members last evening picketed the main gate of the hospital, but protested peacefully, hours after they came to know about the stay order.
The Court of Financial Commissioner, on 19 December, stayed the cancellation order issued by the Directorate General of Health Services till 9 January, when it will hear the matter.
Earlier in the day, the family demanded a CBI probe into the whole matter to bring the "truth out in the open".
The family today put up two starched white banners with protest messages in bold red.
"My wife is back at home. She is in a state of shock. We are holding the fort here, even though we have to defecate in the open near drains, and there is filth and mosquitoes, but we will not give up," he said.
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