Haryana To Set Up Panel To Probe Hospitals Negligent In Treating Covid Patients

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar made the announcement while seeking to assure the House that no death due to oxygen shortage had been recorded in the state.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday told the state assembly that his government will set up a panel to probe possible negligence by hospitals in treating Covid patients. The chief minister made the announcement while seeking to assure the House that no death due to oxygen shortage had been recorded in the state. Mr Khattar sought to assure the assembly after the opposition Congress, during Zero Hour, raised the issue of deaths in parts of the state allegedly due to oxygen shortage during the peak of the second Covid wave earlier this year. Former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, while training guns on Mr Khattar, alleged, "Leader of the House has misled the Assembly. He said not a single death took place due to lack of oxygen."