The oxygen supplier company at Baba Raghav Das (BRD) Hospital in Gorakhpur has claimed that they never stopped the supply despite outstanding dues of Rs 69 lakh,a leading daily has reported.
The company, Pushpa Sales Pvt Ltd, has said that the college was defaulting on the payment for liquid oxygen supply which was a violation of the contract but despite that the company never interrupted the supply.
Meenu Walia of Pushpa Sales says “Liquid oxygen supply by Pushpa Sales to BRD hospital, irrespective of overdue payment, was duly maintained. First supply for this month was made on 4 August and the next intimation for refilling request from the BRD hospital came on 11 August, which was fulfilled on 12 August.”.
She added that the company had also issued a legal notice to the hospital but had never stopped supply.
The MD of the company Manish Bhandari suspected that a big oxygen cylinder theft led to the depleted supply. “Since April, this problem of delay in payment by the hospital had compounded. There were three conditions as part of our contract, according to which liquid oxygen, oxygen cylinders and Ambu bags were to be present at the BRD in abundance. But the hospital became too dependent on us while not refilling their cylinders. The government must find why there were just around 50 cylinders instead of 400 on that particular day when deaths took place. I suspect a big oxygen cylinder theft or racket, which they must find it out.”he added.
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