Jordan's health minister resigned on Saturday after six people died from an oxygen cut in a hospital.
The police have even had to be deployed to contain the anger of the victims' families.
The oxygen failure, which occurred this morning
, affected the wards for intensive care, maternity and coronavirus at the Salt Hospital, which opened last August west of the capital, Amman.
A government spokesman said Prime Minister
Bisher al Khasawneh
asked Health Minister
Nathir Obeidat
to resign over the accident as having "moral responsibility." Obeidat assumed the six deaths were caused by an hour-long disruption in oxygen from the wards and said prosecutors were investigating the case. King
Abdullah of Jordan
also later visited the hospital.
The head of the Health portfolio explained that the incident occurred
"because the stored oxygen ran out"
, although he assured that the supply had already been restored and "patients are receiving it normally."
Jordan is facing an increase in Covid-19 infections, mainly attributed to the rapid transmission of the British variant of the virus.
The country last week announced stricter measures to curb the spread of the virus
and reimposed a complete lockdown on Fridays.
New cases reported Thursday stood at 8,300, the highest daily death toll since the pandemic entered the kingdom a year ago. Jordan, with a population of around 10 million,
has recorded 385-533 Covid cases and 5,224. deaths.
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