- Rajesh Tyagi/ 14.8.2017
Bureaucratic apathy, integral to the capitalist regime, resulted into virtual genocide when a bill dispute between oxygen supplier and the state medical college at Gorakhpur City in North India landed into a shutdown of oxygen supply in the state hospital, leaving more than 60 kids dead in three days. Matter came under spotlight only after 30 kids lost their lives overnight on August 11. As oxygen supply was stopped, children, admitted in the hospital for treatment of encephalitis, badly wriggled for breath before their death. Oxygen is part of critical support in treatment of the deadly Japanese encephalitis.
Bills worth rupees 69 lakhs of the supplier company were pending for months together. Despite clear warnings and ultimatums, neither payments were made to the supplier, nor any alternative arrangements were made to procure oxygen from other enlisted suppliers.
Gorakhpur is the constituency of Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, a north Indian province.
Bills worth rupees 69 lakhs of the supplier company were pending for months together. Despite clear warnings and ultimatums, neither payments were made to the supplier, nor any alternative arrangements were made to procure oxygen from other enlisted suppliers.
Gorakhpur is the constituency of Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, a north Indian province.
