The Uttar Pradesh government has initiated a probe after the owner of a private hospital in Agra was caught bragging about how the hospital turned off the oxygen supply for five minutes in a “mock drill” to identify “who will die and who will survive”. 22 patients turned blue, he is heard saying.
“We had to find out the oxygen dependency of the patients to understand how we can handle the situation if there is an oxygen shortage or if the supply gets over…Mock drill means taking stock of the situation before facing an issue, to understand how to work in an emergency. We had categorised the patients…we categorised Covid patients to see which patient needs how much oxygen… Mock drills do not mean switching off a patient’s oxygen. We did not switch off oxygen . I did not clearly say so in the video. I said a mock drill was done at 7 am , in which 22 patients were segregated” Mr.jain said.
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