Summary:
Meerut: The administration in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut is probing allegation that a private hospital admitted four times more patients than it was allowed during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic and supplied them with inadequate oxygen leading to “25-30 deaths” every day.
The allegation was made by Devendra Kumar, an insider who has been working with the hospital for the last 11 years.
Taking the accusations seriously, district magistrate K Balaji has ordered a probe by a panel.
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Meerut: The administration in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut is probing allegation that a private hospital admitted four times more patients than it was allowed during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic and supplied them with inadequate oxygen leading to “25-30 deaths” every day.
The allegation was made by Devendra Kumar, an insider who has been working with the hospital for the last 11 years.
Taking the accusations seriously, district magistrate K Balaji has ordered a probe by a panel.
“We have constituted a team of additional district magistrate (ADM, administration) and assistant chief medical officer (ACMO) which will look into the allegations,” he said.
Attempts to contact the owner of the hospital went unanswered.
In his video statement, Kumar alleged that the hospital was getting limited oxygen cylinders which were meant to cater to the need of its fixed quota of 50 patients.
“District magistrate had authorized the intake of only 50 Covid-19 patients.
So we were getting our quota of 300 oxygen cylinders.