A case would be registered against the hospital under the Epidemic Act, said District Magistrate Prabhu N Singh.
After a video of a private hospital owner from Agra went viral, in which he talked about cutting off oxygen supply as “Mock Drill”, criticism poured in from all quarters. Now, the Agra district administration has now ordered sealing of the hospital.
The district administration took the decision after investigation on Tuesday.
A case would be registered against the hospital under the Epidemic Act. There are 55 patients admitted to the hospital, who will be shifted to another medical facility by a team of the CMO, said District Magistrate Prabhu N Singh.
DM Singh further said all deaths in the hospital were being audited by the CMO’s team. He said comments in the viral video spread fear among the public. On the other hand, the hospital management denied that any mock drill had been done to stop oxygen.
A video purportedly of a Director of a private hospital in UP’s Agra had gone viral on social media sites in which he’s heard claiming that several Covid patients died as a result of a mock exercise that allegedly cut off the medical oxygen supply.
“We were told that even the Chief Minister cannot get oxygen, so start discharging patients. Modi Nagar is dry. We started counseling families. Some were willing to listen but the others said they would not leave. I said ok let’s do a mock drill. We will find out who will die and who will survive. So we did that at 7 am. A mock drill was done. No one knows. Then we identified 22 patients. We realised they would die. This was done for 5 minutes. They started turning blue,” Arinjay Jain, the owner of Paras Hospital, can be allegedly heard saying in the 1.5-minute audio clip from April 28.
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