The night the oxygen ran out in an Indian hospital

The hospital’s supplies of oxygen had been steadily dwindling, after the supplier cut off shipments of liquid oxygen for lack of payment. On Friday, despite repeated warnings from the supplier and hospital technicians, the oxygen ran out. By the time the flow was stabilized, more than 60 children had died. The government hospital, part of the larger Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur, was considered the area’s best.