Six sufferers died resulting from scarcity of oxygen at a personal hospital in Amritsar on Saturday. Five of those sufferers have been Covid-19 optimistic.
The managing director of Neelkanth Hospital, Sunil Devgan, blamed the district administration for the deaths. “We repeatedly asked the district administration to provide us oxygen but we got no response,” stated Devgan.
He alleged that the district administration has captured oxygen vegetation in Amritsar to provide oxygen to Government Medical College.
Punjab Health minister Balbir Sidhu stated, “We will investigate the incident and will take action accordingly.”