Lucknow: Even as the Yogi Adityanath government continues to deny that 30 children died in a day in the BRD Medical College Hospital due to disruption in oxygen supply on August 10, a letter written by chief medical superintendent Dr R.S. Shukla to the suspended principal Rajeev Misra proves that oxygen had ‘totally dried up’ on that fateful day.
Dr Shukla in his letter said “the stock of liquid oxygen has totally dried up and a meeting of doctors including the pediatrics department head and others was held on the morning of August 11, in room number 12 of the pediatrics department, to review the situation”.
UP minister for medical education Ashutosh Tandon has also landed in controversy after his letter in which he had told MLC C.P. Chand that a probe into the charges against BRD principal Raeev Misra had been ordered on July 10 — a month before the tragedy struck.
