Jordan health minister resigns after oxygen outage kills patients

Anger in Jordan as several COVID-19 patients die when their oxygen supply runs out at a government hospital.

Jordan’s health minister has resigned amid growing anger after several COVID-19 patients died at a hospital when their oxygen supply ran out. State media on Saturday reported at least seven deaths at the government hospital in the town of al-Salt, some 20 kilometres (13 miles) north of the capital, Amman, but medical sources told Al Jazeera at least 12 patients had died as a result of the incident. Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher al-Khasawneh ordered an investigation, while King Abdullah II arrived at the hospital to help calm angry families who had gathered outside.