A Jordanian court sentenced five senior health officials to three years in jail on Sunday for causing the death of 10 COVID-19 patients following an oxygen outage in a major state hospital, state media said.
The
court found the former director of the state hospital in Salt, a city
west of the capital, and four of his senior aides responsible for the
deaths, the media said. The patients, who were being treated in the
hospital, died in March when staff failed to act after oxygen ran out in
a COVID-19 ward for nearly an hour.
The
disaster, which politicians and local activists said exposed gross
negligence in the state health system during a spike in COVID-19
infections, sparked anti-government protests across many cities and
provincial towns.
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