Agra: A video purportedly of a director of a personal nursing house in Agra claiming a number of COVID-19 patients died because of this of a mock train that allegedly minimize off medical oxygen provide, has gone viral.
“I decided to conduct an experiment/mock drill as we were facing an acute shortage of oxygen as people were not ready to discharge their patients despite multiple requests. At 7 AM on April 26, we snapped the oxygen supply for five minutes. Soon, 22 patients’ bodies turned blue and they started gasping for breath so we came to know that they won’t survive in case there is no oxygen. Then, we ask family members of the remaining 74 patients to arrange their own oxygen cylinders”, Arinjay Jain, proprietor of Paras Hospital on NH 2 may be heard saying in the purported video which isn’t verified but.
Both Agra District Magistrate P.N. Singh and CMO R.C. Pandey on Tuesday reacted to the event, saying an inquiry has been ordered and motion would comply with on the idea of its report.
“We`ll look into the video surfaced about these deaths. There were 22 critical patients admitted in the hospital but have no details of their death,” DM Singh advised the media.
In an announcement the District Magistrate claimed there was no death resulting from lack of oxygen on that day the alleged video was recorded. However, he mentioned a probe could be performed.
