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The committee set up by the Uttar Pradesh government, however, said the neo-natal unit of the hospital where the deaths occurred on November three and November four was 'deficient' and a number of life-saving equipment were non-functional, Medical Education Minister N K S Gaur told reporters.
The non-functional life-saving equipment included ventilators, infant warmers, incubators and pulse oxy-meters.
Gaur said the committee found that the centralised system to ensure supply of oxygen to the infants being treated on ventilators was not functioning on the fateful days due to a leakage in the pipe supplying oxygen.
The minister said the government has sought an explanation from the superintendent of the KGMC and the head of the neo-natal unit on the deficiencies in the unit.
He said the hospital had not utilised a grant of Rs 4.13 million released by the government last year for modernising the unit. The unutilised grant was also being re-validated, the minister said.
Gaur said since there was shortage of nurses and other paramedical staff at the neo-natal unit, the Government has sanctioned 42 posts of staff nurses with immediate effect.
Twenty-six extra oxygen cylinders were being arranged, he said adding that experts from Lucknow and Kanpur medical colleges have been asked to look into the technical aspects of the unit and suggest improvement.
This is the second report, after a three-member doctors' committee finding, to absolve the KGMC hospital of the charges in the infant deaths.
Another probe had been conducted by two Delhi doctors on the instruction of the Prime Minister's Office and their report has been submitted there.
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