Catastrophe in Jordan: At least six patients died due to oxygen shortages in public hospital
Jordan's Minister of Health resigned assuming moral responsibility.
Amman (QNN)- Jordan’s Minister of Health, Nathir Obeidat, resigned on Saturday assuming moral responsibility for shortages of oxygen that led to at least six deaths of ICU patients at Al Salt public hospital this morning.
Patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) at the hospital were cut off from oxygen, which led to at least six deaths.
Jordan’s state TV. announced that the Prime Minister ordered to investigate the incident.
Fayez Kharawsheh, son of a patient in the ICU at the hospital, said that “the Civil Defence arrived only after the oxygen had run out, while the head of the hospital did not answer calls of patients’ families”.
King Abdullah II visited the hospital, while dozens of angry family members of the patients gathered at the hospital.
