Head of Indian Medical College and His Wife Charged in Oxygen Shortage<br />30, 2017<br />NEW DELHI — The chief of the Indian medical college where dozens of sick children died this month after the<br />oxygen supply ran out has been arrested on charges of culpable homicide, the Indian authorities have said.<br />The police said they planned to arrest more people in connection with the oxygen shortage,<br />including hospital account clerks, doctors and executives of the oxygen supply company.<br />Despite repeated warnings from technicians within the hospital<br />and from the oxygen supply company, the oxygen supply was allowed to dwindle to nothing.<br />Dr. Rajiv Mishra, who had been chief of Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur<br />until he was recently suspended, was arrested Tuesday along with his wife.<br />High-ranking government officials insisted that the hospital’s central oxygen supply system was empty for only two hours,<br />and that the shortage was not a factor in the deaths.<br />Mishra is under police custody for interrogation, and we are trying to arrest others," said Satyarth<br />Anirudha Pankaj, police chief of Gorakhpur, during a telephone interview Wednesday evening.
