No proof of oxygen supply cut off for 'mock drill': UP's Death Audit Committee on Agra hospital

However, the Committee stated that the administration of the 'Paras Hospital' had misled patients on grounds of lack of oxygen.

New Delhi: Ten days after a video of the owner of an Agra hospital went viral in which he is purportedly talking of 'mock drill' that reportedly claimed 22 lives, the Uttar Pradesh's Death Audit Committee has said that there is 'no proof' that the oxygen supply was cut off.   However, the Committee in its report on Friday (June 18, 2021), stated that the administration of the 'Paras Hospital' had misled patients on grounds of lack of oxygen and discharged them. The report added that Police will take necessary action against the said hospital for violation of Epidemic Diseases Act protocols. "It is not at all true that 22 patients died after oxygen supply was cut off for a mock drill. No one's oxygen was cut off for a drill nor is there any proof of it. It's misleading information, or else 22 people would have died on April 26," the Death Audit Committee said.