‘It’s a massacre’: At least 30 children die in Indian hospital after oxygen is cut off

By artappraiser on Sat, 08/12/2017 - 6:10pm |

By Annie Gowen @ WashingtonPost.com, Aug. 12

NEW DELHI — One by one, the infants and children slipped away Thursday night, their parents watching helplessly as oxygen supplies at the government hospital ran dangerously low.

At least 30 children died Thursday and into Friday at a hospital in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh after its supply of liquid oxygen was disrupted over an unpaid bill, officials said. A home ministry spokesman told the Press Trust of India, citing police reports, that 21 of the deaths were directly linked a shortage of oxygen [....]

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