Indore police deny 17 people died in city hospital because oxygen supply was cut off

Police in Indore have denied that 17 people died at a city hospital because their oxygen supply was cut off.

The police said the deaths were caused by illness, and that those many deaths are routine in a 1,400-bed hospital.

"No oxygen supply failure has been reported and no one died because of oxygen supply failure. They died to illness," ANI reported Indore commissioner Sanjay Dubey as saying.

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"I have been to every ward of the hospital after certain local newspapers carried the misinformation. There was no break in oxygen supply. The hospital records 10-20 deaths a day," he added.

Reports had surfaced earlier that 17 people had died at the city's MY Hospital after their oxygen supply was mysteriously cut off for about 15 minutes.