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The Jordanian monarch, King Abdullah II of the deaths, from Al-Salt Hospital, who witnessed the death of 7 patients with the Corona virus, as a result of the lack of oxygen in the intensive care rooms, said that “what happened is a serious mistake that is not justified and unacceptable. “
The Jordanian Prime Minister, Bishr Al-Khasawneh, summoned King Abdullah II, in the wake of the “Al-Salt catastrophe” that shook the Jordanian street, which had led the declaration of the state of maximum emergency in all hospitals.
The Jordanian monarch had gone to the Al-Salt Government Hospital and heard from officials there details of the incident that occurred at the hospital, which housed about 200 patients.
Al-Khasawneh told a press conference: “The government is fully responsible for what happened and we are awaiting investigations.” Al-Khasawneh cited Jordan’s King Abdullah II as his assertion that “what happened was a gross, unjustified and unacceptable mistake,” adding that “what happened at Salt Hospital is a matter of grandeur and cannot be justified.”
Al-Khasawneh explained that the Minister of Health and officials had been fired. “The Minister of Health, Nazir Obeidat, and the Director of Salt Hospital, were fired, and the Director of Balqa Health was suspended from work until investigation procedures were completed.”
Later on Saturday, the Prosecutor in the Jordanian capital Amman arrested 5 employees of the Al-Salt Hospital in the wake of the tragedy, and accused the detainees of joint deaths, according to the Jordanian news agency Petra.
The Public Ministry ordered the detention of the detainees, who are the director of the Al-Hussein Hospital in Salt, 3 of his assistants and a supply officer, in a prison for a week, pending investigation.
Jordanian Parliament Speaker Abdel Moneim Saleh Al-Awdat decided to invite Parliament to an emergency session tomorrow Sunday morning to discuss the causes and repercussions of the oxygen failure at the new Salt Hospital.
It should be noted that after the “catastrophe”, the Jordan Salt Hospital witnessed a crowd of dozens of citizens, coinciding with an intense security presence in the context of the incident, which unleashed a state of indignation in the Jordanian street, as some of them, they challenged the night ban imposed in the country as part of the measures to limit the outbreak of the new Corona virus.
Some citizens burned tires in front of the hospital to express their anger at the failure to perform work, leading to the deaths.
