In an unfortunate incident as many as nine patients, including newborn babies, were reported dead at Madhya Pradesh’s largest Government hospital, MY Hospital in Indore on Thursday allegedly due to absence of oxygen supply. Indore commissioner Sanjay Dube, however, denied these deaths on account of lack of oxygen supply in the hospital.
Brushing aside the media report, according to which as many as nine people, including four newborn babies, had reportedly died in the hospital on account of oxygen supply, Indore commissioner confirmed death of eight people in the hospital but denied that it was due to lack of oxygen supply. In a statement issued by the directorate of public relations here, Dube said that those who have been reported dead in the hospital were suffering from severe diseases and there was not a single child among the deceased.
The news of deaths of nine persons at MY Hospital in the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday pressed panic button among the senior officials in the district administration. According to news appeared in a section of local media, the incident occurred in the ICU of the MY hospital between 3 am and 5 am and the reason behind these deaths was attributed to absence of oxygen supply.
The Divisional Commissioner after coming to know about the incident, rushed to the MY Hospital on Thursday and took round of all the wards. After checking hospital records, he confirmed deaths of eight people in the hospital but denied there was any children among the deceased
Talking to mediapersons, Dube informed about deaths of five persons in the ICU of the hospital where on an average four to six people die every day.
In addition to this, three other people died in other wards of the hospital. He, however, ruled out that these patients died due to lack of oxygen supply in the ICU, instead he said these patients were suffering from severe diseases.
Dube said 350 beds in the hospital get centralised oxygen supply and it is just impossible that there was any absence of oxygen pressure on five to seven beds of the hospital, he said. The commissioner, however, said that an enquiry into the matter would be initiated to reach to the bottom of the fact. The committee which will probe into the matter will both have doctors and officials of the hospital, he added.