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"Despite all the efforts of CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation), the patient could not be saved," the ICU doctors noted on each deceased patient's record. The documents accessed by TOI on Saturday seem to suggest that the four deaths may be directly connected to the oxygen supply.Is it possible to identify death due to poor oxygen supply? All the deaths were certified by one 'Dr Anurag'.Forty-year-old meningitis patient Geeta Bai, a resident of Ranipuri village in Khandwa, was the first to die. "There are forensic techniques through examination of blood, veins and tissue that can ascertain if death happened due to partial lack of oxygen (hypoxia), or total (anoxia)," said a forensic specialist. The hospital insisted that the deaths were routine, while the records of the dead patients "disappeared".Buckling under pressure, the hospital superintendent finally revealed names of 17 patients who had died in the previous 24 hours, but refused to divulge the time of death..