August 11, according to foreign media reports, an outage of equipment dedicated to oxygen supply in a hospital in India led to the death of 30 children within 48 hours. The tragedy, which has shocked the world.
According to information provided by a local Indian television station, the accident occurred in Gorakhpur, in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Hospital sources said that 20 children died when the agency responsible for providing oxygen interrupted its supply on the evening of August 10th.
The Uttar Pradesh government held a news conference at 3:30 p.m. local time on the progress of the mass child deaths in Uttar Pradesh. The Uttar Pradesh health minister said that more than 60 children have lost their lives in hospitals in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh over the past five days, and that the large number of child deaths was not due to any disruption or shortage of liquefied oxygen supply.
This comes after a local official told the media that the hospital had stopped supplying oxygen because it had failed to pay the company that provided it. The hospital owed more than 7 million rupees (about $109,000) in arrears to the oxygen provider, India TV reported. Earlier, hospital leaders had received several demand notes, sources said.