Chicago Tribune: One by one, the infants and children slipped away Thursday night, their parents watching helplessly as oxygen supplies at the government hospital ran dangerously low.
At least 30 children died Thursday and into Friday at a hospital in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after its supply of liquid oxygen was disrupted over an unpaid bill, officials said. A home ministry spokesman told the Press Trust of India, citing police reports, that 21 of the deaths were directly linked a shortage of oxygen.
Witnesses described a chaotic scene between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. as medical practitioners and relatives — the tanks running dry — handed out manual resuscitator bags to families in a desperate attempt to save the young patients.
“We saw children dying around us,” said the father of one victim, who gave his name only as Vijay. “Obviously, it’s the hospital’s fault. So many children have died because of them. My son was fine until nighttime, then something wrong happened.” more here
Satan walks the earth.
Government healthcare in action.
Pay your fucking bills, you won’t get cut off.
@harbqll, or it should be @heartless: The hospital did not pay their bills and the resident families, whom I assume were paying their hospital bills, paid the price along with the loss of a young child. Sometimes even this site makes me sick with these awful comments.
Also as a side note, knowing many people from India, the problem that caused this massacre was probably started with fear of shame & dignity, and hiding the fact that they could not procure enough oxygen.
If the hospital administrator worked for the VA the government Union would make sure you got your job back.
Cato, not only woulk they get their job back but a 6-figure bonus to boot!
@Meerkat Brzezinski August 13, 2017 at 6:40 pm
@harbqll is right. If you’re going to allow government intervention, any government intervention at all, in financial disputes, then you’ve already agreed that people should be killed for not giving other people enough money to be allowed to live.
I remember a story from when the Soviet Union was breaking down, the commander of some nuclear base was threatened with the power being cut off for unpaid bills. He ha ha tank drive to the gate of the power company. The power was not interrupted.
It’s technically true that they didn’t run out because of a unpaid bill. The supplier didn’t extend his contract beyond 7/31 because he was owed about 90 thousand for 6 months.
I’ll bet no hospital employee went that long without pay.
No TractorSupply or O’Reilly’s or Robert’s or MFA to get more oxygen.
Third World living – and dying.
Meerkat – calm the fuck down.
It’s a simple fact that the hospital should have paid its bills.
The fact that innocents die when organizations (corporations, governments, unions, &c.) fuck up isn’t new.
The innocent suffer first, and with more severity, than the perpetrators.
izlamo delenda est …