report in The Frontier Post / Dec 7, 2020
PESHAWAR: Coronavirus cases are surging in every province of Pakistan at an alarming rate alongside people are also facing severe issues in the hospitals due to lack of health facilities. The Provincial Health Minister Taimur Khan Jhagra has stated that the Six patients, majority of them suffering from coronavirus infection died here at Khyber Teaching Hospital on Saturday night due to lack of oxygen supply.
While tweeting on his official Twitter account, Provincial Minister for Health, Taimur Jhagra also commented that “there was an incident last involving a shortage of oxygen supply.
He also confirmed that, he has directed the Board of Governors (BoG), to conduct an immediate inquiry and take action within 48 hours or if otherwise required, government will immediately orders its own independent inquiry.
On the other hand, Spokesman of KTH, Farhad Khan apprised newsmen that among the deceased five were patients of COVID-19.
Farhad also revealed that the patients were admitted in hospital’s coronavirus ward and one was in intensive care unit.
While getting into the details of the incident, the spokesperson of KTH commented that, hospital got its oxygen supply from Rawalpindi which did not receive on time and caused shortage as a result of which six patients breathed their last.
Some other spokesperson of KTH said there were about 120 oxygen cylinder in the back up but due to spike in cases of coronavirus patients at country level a sudden shortage occurred.
