New Delhi: The Paras Hospital in Agra on Tuesday (June 8, 2021) was sealed after a video of its proprietor went viral in which he’s purportedly speaking of ‘mock drill’ that reportedly claimed 22 lives. The Agra administration took the step after the Uttar Pradesh well being division initiated a probe into the tragedy.
However, the choice has now elevated hassle for the kin of the patients who had been present process remedy on the hospital.
“Our patient was admitted here 15 days ago and there’s no improvement in the condition. We have been asked to sign the patient’s discharge document in order to receive the file. We don’t know where to take the patient now,” Lal Kumar Chouhan, the attendant of a affected person at Paras Hospital advised ANI.
He added, “Agra is a small city. There are no other options available. Most of the hospitals in the city are full and those which have beds are charging too much. In such a condition, how will our patient get treatment?”
Mohit Chaudhary, the attendant of one other affected person on the hospital mentioned, “My father underwent surgery on Monday and he is still recovering. In this critical condition, where do I take him? I urge the administration to give us some time.”
Earlier when the UP authorities had ordered a probe into the tragedy, Dr Arinjay Jain, the proprietor of the Paras Hospital, refuted the information studies of 22 deaths and mentioned that they’re baseless. Jain mentioned that he is able to cooperate with any investigation.
“In a small city like Agra, there would an outcry if 22 patients die at a hospital. No patients died due to oxygen shortage that day,” he mentioned.
“By mistake or innocence, I mentioned the word ‘mock drill’ in the video but there was no mock drill as such,” Jain added.
“We conducted, call it clinical assessment or mock drill, to check how we can maintain a patient at a minimum level of oxygen in our effort to ensure its rationale use. During this exercise, bedside oxygen adjustment was made,” he said.
Dr Jain claimed that the oxygen provide was not snapped throughout this train.
He mentioned that it enabled them to determine patients who wanted high-flow oxygen so that they will make non-compulsory preparations for them in case of acute oxygen scarcity.
In a video that has gone viral now, Jain may be heard speaking in regards to the mock drill.
“During an acute shortage of oxygen… the hospital conducted a mock drill. We stopped the oxygen supply for five minutes around 7 am on April 26. Twenty-two patients started gasping for breath and their bodies began turning blue. Then there were remaining 74 patients and we asked their family members to bring their own oxygen cylinders,” he mentioned.
(With inputs from ANI)
