India delivers oxygen to public hospital
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Indian health authorities yesterday delivered oxygen to a public hospital where 63 people have died of encephalitis in recent days, nearly half of them children, as it ran out of medical supplies because of unpaid bills, triggering public outrage.
The deaths of the children have again exposed India’s underfunded and poorly managed public health care despite Prime Minister Narendra Modi government’s vows to revamp the system.
Hundreds of people die each year in India of encephalitis and no medical official directly linked the recent deaths to a lack of oxygen.
But complaints that the hospital in the eastern city of Gorakhpur did not have enough supplies have stoked anger against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party which governs Uttar Pradesh state.
“We now have adequate supplies of oxygen cylinders, there was a shortage last week... but I am not in a position to say whether they were the cause behind the deaths,” R.K. Sahai, a senior medical officer in the hospital, said.
Bipin Singh said his six-year-old daughter died on Thursday because of lack of oxygen and he had seen six other children die for the same reason.
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