India: court compared lack of oxygen in hospitals with genocide

The High Court of Allahabad in India believes that local authorities are guilty of the death of many patients with coronavirus, since they could not provide medical institutions with oxygen, which is comparable to genocide, NDTV TV channel said.

The board of a high court adopted a decision on the beginning of the trial about the growth of the number of deaths associated with the lack of oxygen in hospitals, transfers TASS.

“The death of patients with coronavirus only due to the shortness of oxygen in the hospital is a criminal act that is not less than the genocide, from those who are entrusted to ensure continuous workpiece and chain of supply of liquid medical oxygen,” said Judges Allahabad (in 2018 The city was renamed Pragratzh, but the High Court has retained the name).

“How can we allow our people to die in such a way when science has progressed so much that in our days they produce heart transplant and operation on the brain?” – noted in court.

Recall, in India, the situation with the proliferation of coronavirus, up to 400 thousand sick are recorded daily. The leader of the largest opposition party “Indian National Congress” (INC) Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday called the power of India to introduce a national quarantine to combat the proliferation of coronavirus.