Grieving parents and politicians have denounced a “massacre” after more than 60 children died in a matter of hours in northern India, when oxygen supplies to a hospital were cut off because of an unpaid bill. Parents who watched their children slip away were given manual resuscitation bags by frantic medical staff when piped oxygen ran out on Thursday night. Hospital bosses are accused of ignoring the unpaid debt for months and failing to act when warned on Thursday morning that oxygen supplies were critically low. Amid mounting fury across India, local officials, hospital staff and suppliers blamed each other for the tragedy as the death toll climbed through the weekend. Piped oxygen had still not been…

Source: The Times August 13, 2017 17:03 UTC