India - Hospital's unpaid oxygen bills result in deaths of dozens of children

[meanmaryjean]

im pretty sure that happens everyday in places like africa....multiple times

To be sure it does. Africa, Southeast Asia, India, Haiti (to get a little closer to home)..... we are very insulated here from how it is outside our borders.

 

[FrostOwl]

im pretty sure that happens everyday in places like africa....multiple times

In Nigeria only an estimated 240 childre a day!! dies of starvation: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...cef-international-community-aid-a7546176.html

 

[gregjrichards]

"Twenty-five children died over the weekend at a Indian government hospital taking the overall death toll to 85, authorities have told the media.

The Indian media has linked a number of these deaths to a shortage of oxygen that resulted when the suppliers' bills were not paid, and the taps were turned off.

Authorities have since launched an inquiry into the causes of the oxygen disruption but have denied reports that it was responsible for any deaths at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh state.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahom...ush-India-hospital-toll-85.html#ixzz4plqosLvV

It is terrible and horrific this can still happen in 2017.

 

[bainalive]

It is terrible and horrific this can still happen in 2017.

Not really, not to me anyway,

The world is a far different place outside of the States, people who have only ever lived in the States are (for the most part) very clueless about what happens in other countries, and the way foreign people live, and the way foreign countries are run. I have lived all over the world, including the States, so I'm speaking from first hand experience.

In foreign countries like this, far worse happens on a daily basis, most of these tragedies just never make the news in the States, If you think this is a major tragedy, you are clueless about what really goes on elsewhere in the world...every single day


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[gregjrichards]

Not really, not to me anyway,

The world is a far different place outside of the States, people who have only ever lived in the States are (for the most part) very clueless about what happens in other countries, and the way foreign people live, and the way foreign countries are run. I have lived all over the world, including the States, so I'm speaking from first hand experience.

In foreign countries like this, far worse happens on a daily basis, most of these tragedies just never make the news in the States, If you think this is a major tragedy, you are clueless about what really goes on elsewhere in the world...every single day


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I entirely understand that there is still extreme poverty in many parts of the world, it's tragic that they have been left behind whilst the developed world has so much. I really hope the hospital gets the money it desperately needs so more young lives aren't lost.

 

[rsd1200]

Because cutting of the oxygen to sick children, adults and the elderly is inhumane. Surely there was something that could have been done. Move patients to different hospitals etc. Sometimes ethical issues involving children and the elderly aren't so cut and dry. It's not the patients fault that the hospital didn't pay, yet they are the ones paying the ultimate price.

While I realize that this took place in another country than my own, human rights and compassion are a universal.

Exactly.

 

[MsFacetious]

"Twenty-five children died over the weekend at a Indian government hospital taking the overall death toll to 85, authorities have told the media.

The Indian media has linked a number of these deaths to a shortage of oxygen that resulted when the suppliers' bills were not paid, and the taps were turned off.

Authorities have since launched an inquiry into the causes of the oxygen disruption but have denied reports that it was responsible for any deaths at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh state.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/indiahom...ush-India-hospital-toll-85.html#ixzz4plqosLvV

It is terrible and horrific this can still happen in 2017.

So are they denying the lack of oxygen caused the deaths? I'm confused.
If that many died and the oxygen wasn't to blame then there are lots of other questions to be asked.

 

[Indy Anna]

So are they denying the lack of oxygen caused the deaths? I'm confused.
If that many died and the oxygen wasn't to blame then there are lots of other questions to be asked.

Apparently, the head of the medical college is denying any Oxygen shortage link to the high number of deaths which, as of Wednesday, is "at least 217" for August alone.

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/troubled-indian-hospital-217-children-died-august-49508903

The following article says "at least 386 child fatalities in August alone."

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/...-gorakhpur-hospital-rise-170830143701031.html

Encephalitis generally wreaks havoc in the area every year during the monsoon season, when stagnant water left over after the rains becomes a breeding ground for mosquitoes.

Experts say this year, fatalities from encephalitis are expected to be high because of excessive rains and flooding across eastern Uttar Pradesh and particularly the area in and around Gorakhpur.