Jordan’s health minister has resigned amid growing anger after several patients died at a hospital due to the current pandemic. They have died due to their oxygen supplies ran out.
State media on Saturday 13 March 2021 reported at least seven deaths at the government hospital in the town of al-Salt, some 20 kilometres (13 miles) north of the capital, Amman.
Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher al-Khasawneh ordered an investigation, while King Abdullah II arrived at the hospital to help calm angry families who had gathered outside.
Denouncing the incident, the king also ordered the hospital’s director suspended.
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