Who pays for oxygen?

Over 70 children have died recently in Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur, which happens to be the constituency of the Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath. Apparently, the children died because there was no oxygen. Why? Because the hospital had not paid the supplier despite repeated reminders. A timeline of events show how Pushpa Sales, the company which supplied oxygen to the hospital, repeatedly wrote to administrators to clear its dues and threatening to stop supplies, but, as is usual in India, the letters were not answered. A hasty inquiry blamed doctors for neglect and blamed the company for stopping supplies because its business is linked to saving lives. Again, as is usual in India, there is no fault attached to politicians and civil servants, who receive eye-watering salaries and perks and, most crucially, have all the power, but are never responsible Politicians instantly blamed encephalitis for the deaths but hospital data shows that only 5 out of 30 children, who died on 10 and 11 August, suffered from Acute Encephalitis Syndrome, while others had a variety of serious conditions.  Dr Yogesh Jain questions the quality of care at BRD. Why were so many patients admitted to ICU, so that there were 3 children to one bed, which led to a shortage of ventilators, so that children were ventilated manually, and, led to a relative lack of qualified staff? A government hospital cannot refuse admission to very sick children and extreme poverty with a high birth rate means that medical services are overwhelmed. Sandipan Sharma defends suspended Dr Kafeel Khan, who apparently tried to buy oxygen with his own money. Gorakhpur is in UP which was won by the BJP, the party of the Prime Minister, with 312 seats out of 403 in March 2017. This is the same Prime Minister who has sanctioned 5 new branches of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, including one in Gorakhpur, as if excellence in medial education can be transferred through a brand, like in selling toothpaste or face cream. The PM is on a mission to eradicate corruption and black money in India, as when he made the entire nation stand in queues for hours to get our own hard earned money sanctified, when highly value notes were suddenly banned on 8 November 2016. Strange then that the BJP received Rs 1.59 billion from sources without PAN number or addresses, between 2012 and 2016 and Rs 21.25 billion from unknown sources in the last decade. While, we, the hapless taxpayers, have to provide fingerprints and iris scans to file tax returns. The Election Commission mourned a lack of ethics in tactics adopted by the BJP to win Rajya Sabha seats in Gujarat. Truth is like oxygen, a lack causes deaths.