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Private hospital in UP cuts off oxygen supply to patients for 'mock drill'

NEW DELHI: A bizarre video clip has surfaced, in which the owner of Shri Paras Hospital in Agra, Dr Arinjay Jain is allegedly describing a ‘mock drill’ they conducted at the hospital during which oxygen supply was allegedly shut down for five minutes.

In the video, Dr Jain mentions that 22 patients showed severe hypoxia symptoms during the mock drill and their hands and feet turned blue. It has been alleged that these 22 patients later died and their deaths were covered up, although the district administration has claimed that no deaths have happened due to this episode.

In video of April 28 which has now gone viral, Dr Jain allegedly claims that there was an acute oxygen shortage at the hospital during the second wave of coronavirus, and when they talked with families of the patients to shift them to other hospitals 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," Dr Jain says.

"After shutting off oxygen supply for five minutes, bodies of 22 patients started turning blue," Jain said.

"Start discharging people, there is no oxygen availability anywhere, even the chief minister cannot get you oxygen. Modi Nagar is dry," he further says in the video.

District Magistrate Prabhu N Singh has said that the hospital will be sealed and patients will be shifted to other hospitals and action will be taken against the owner under the Pandemic Act.

Singh also denied that there was any scarcity of oxygen at the hospital as claimed by Dr Jain in his video. "Shri Paras Hospital had enough oxygen and it is not true that 22 patients died there due to oxygen shortage.

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