Jordan health minister resigns after oxygen outage kills six patients

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Source: Reuters

Jordan’s health minister resigned on Saturday after six people died following an oxygen outage in a hospital treating coronavirus patients and police were deployed to hold back angry relatives, state media said.

The oxygen failure earlier on Saturday hit intensive care, maternity, and coronavirus wards in the new Salt government hospital west of the capital Amman.

A government spokesman said Prime Minister Bisher al Khasawneh asked Health Minister Nathir Obeidat to resign over the accident for which Obeidat had earlier said he carried “moral responsibility

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-jordan-hospital-idUSKBN2B50A1

[Ford_Prefect]

1. Cant you Imagine RonAnon or DeSantis taking responsibility this way for similar public failures?

[McKim]

2. US Needs to Help the Rest of the World

The US needs to help the rest of the world get the vaccines. Drug companies are holding the formulas in patents as if they were private property. The Science done as a base for making these formulas was all done with tax payer dollars through NIH so the vaccines should be in the public domain. We should be helping countries take care of this problem up front.