The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered an investigation after the owner of a hospital in Agra was purportedly caught on video saying tha...
The Uttar Pradesh government has ordered an investigation after the owner of a hospital in Agra was purportedly caught on video saying that the facility cut off oxygen supply for patients for five minutes in April in a “mock drill”, NDTV reported. Agra, and the rest of India, was in the middle of the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic in April and there was an acute shortage of the life-saving gas.
Arinjay Jain, the owner of Paras Hospital, is heard saying in the video that the mock drill was done to check who would survive if the hospital’s oxygen supply ran out. Scroll.in has not independently verified the authenticity of the video.
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Jain said that his hospital had tried to persuade families to take patients home as there was an acute shortage of oxygen at that time. Some families agreed but others refused to do so, Jain claimed.
“We decided to do a mock drill of sorts to see who will survive and who won’t. We wanted to identify those whose oxygen supply could be cut,” Jain said. “At 7 am on April 26, we shut off oxygen supply for five minutes and 22 patients started turning blue. We realised that they will...
