Agra Hospital Sealed, Owner Booked Over Death Of 22 Patients During Alleged 'Oxygen Mock Drill'

The owner in the alleged video has admitted that he had on April 26 got the oxygen supply of critical patients stopped for five minutes as an "experiment to know who all are going to survive." 

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Agra: The Agra district administration has ordered to seal the Shri Paras Hospital, a prominent private healthcare centre in Agra and carry out an investigation in purported viral video clip of its owner where he talks about how the hospital cut off oxygen for Covid patients as part of a “mock drill” to see who will survive and who won’t during an oxygen crisis.

Accoring to reports, the owner in the alleged video has admitted that he had on April 26 got the oxygen supply of critical patients stopped for five minutes as an "experiment to know who all are going to survive." 

"We talked with families of the patients but no one was ready to discharge their patients. So we decided to conduct a mock drill so that we could segregate the critically ill patients. After shutting off the oxygen supply for five minutes, bodies of 22 patients started turning blue," Jain was heard saying in the video.

News agency ANI however quoted Dr Arinjay Jain, the owner of Agra's Paras Hospital, saying that "news reports of 22 deaths are baseless and he is ready to cooperate with any investigation." 

Meanwhile, District Magistrate of Agra Prabhu N Singh and the Uttar Pradesh health department has initiated a probe into the matter. The official reportedly said that the video was of April which went viral on June 7.