The critical role of oxygen

August 14, 2017 10:50

Oxygen is critical to treating life-threatening respiratory infections and encephalitis, but patient-specific probes may be needed to explain the spike in child deaths in Gorakhpur last week, doctors said today.

Thirty children had died at Gorakhpur's Baba Raghav Das Medical College on Thursday and Friday after a vendor stopped the oxygen supply on Wednesday evening because of unpaid bills.

The state government insists that the hospital had quickly made alternative arrangements and that the children did not die of a lack of oxygen. Some of the parents have, however, alleged that as soon as the supply stopped and the deaths began, they were thrown out of the hospital. Read more

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