Jordan court jails health officials over Covid-19 oxygen deaths

ReutersPublished: Dec 6, 2021 1:43 AM

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 (photo above), a city west of Amman, the capital of Jordan, and four of his senior aides responsible for the deaths, the media said...

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