The administration of Uttar Pradesh’s Agra city on Tuesday sealed a hospital after its owner was purportedly caught on a video saying that...
The administration of Uttar Pradesh’s Agra city on Tuesday sealed a hospital after its owner was purportedly caught on a video saying that the facility cut off oxygen supply for patients for five minutes in a mock drill in April, The Indian Express reported. The mock drill happened when UP and several other states were grappling with acute shortages of oxygen amid the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Arinjay Jain, the owner of Paras Hospital, has been booked under the Epidemic Diseases Act and Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant, causing obstruction and injury), according to ANI.
In the video, which triggered massive outrage on Tuesday, Jain was heard saying that the mock drill was done on April 26 to check who would survive if the hospital’s oxygen supply ran out. Scroll.in has not independently verified the authenticity of the video. At one point in video, he said that 22 patients “turned blue” and gasped for breath when their oxygen supply was interrupted.
Agra District Magistrate Prabhu Narain Singh claimed that no patient died due to oxygen shortage at the hospital on April 28, the day the video was reportedly shot. “Oxygen was available at the...
