The police in Lucknow on Wednesday night registered a First Information Report against a private hospital in the city for allegedly spreadi...
The police in Lucknow on Wednesday night registered a First Information Report against a private hospital in the city for allegedly spreading “false rumours” over shortage of oxygen and trying to hoard the gas at the facility, The Indian Express reported. The FIR was lodged based on a complaint from the district administration.
Sun Hospital, situated in the city’s Gomti Nagar area, said it would move the Allahabad High Court against the FIR.
The complaint was lodged after the Allahabad High Court on May 3 held that deaths due to shortages of oxygen at hospitals was “not less than genocide”. The court made the observation based on a notice put out by Sun Hospital which asked family members of Covid-19 patients to admitted at the hospital to shift them to some other facility due to shortage of the gas. The FIR mentioned that the notice “created fear and panic among the patients’ families”, Bar and Bench reported.
However, Lucknow district administration alleged that they found eight jumbo cylinders and two B-type cylinders and concentrators were available with the hospital. The FIR has been lodged under sections of the Disaster Management Act and Epidemic Diseases Act and Indian Penal Code Sections 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) and 269 (negligent act likely...
