The Indore Police on Friday denied the death report of 17 patients (including two children) who died due to oxygen supply cut in the hospital. The police claimed that their illness was the cause of death.
“No oxygen supply failure has been reported and no one died because of oxygen supply failure. They died to illness,” Indore Commissioner Sanjay Dubey said.
He added that there was no negligence on part of the hospital authorities and the deaths are routine in a 1,400-bed hospital.
“I have been to every ward of the hospital after certain local newspapers carried the misinformation. There was no break in oxygen supply. The hospital records 10-20 deaths a day,” Mr Dubey said.
Earlier, reports of 17 people’s death at the MY Hospital were doing the rounds, after oxygen supply was mysteriously cut for around 15 minutes. When media sought to check the records of patients and the logbook where oxygen supply is recorded vanished, officials refused to show the files. They quoted that everything was ‘alright’.
