UP Police Lodge FIR Against Lucknow Hospital Which Put Up ‘Oxygen Shortage’ Notice
Uttar Pradesh police has registered an FIR against the director of a Lucknow hospital and others after the former released a notice saying there was an oxygen shortage….
“After repeated requests to the UPCM/Central Government, we are not able to get enough oxygen supply. Hence we request the family members of those patients who are on oxygen support to take their patients to a higher centre for further management. We are extremely sorry for the inconvenience,” the notice said….
The hospital maintains that there were a total of 38 patients admitted at the time. Dewendra Tiwari, nursing in-charge at the hospital told The Wire, “They can check our cameras…we did not have even one bed empty at that time.” Further, he asked, “How could we even think of black marketing during such a situation when we cannot even provide oxygen to our patients?”…
