Jordan jails health officials over Covid-19 oxygen deaths

A Jordanian court sentenced five senior health officials to three years in prison 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, a city west of the capital Amman, and four of his senior aides responsible for the deaths, the media said. The patients, who were being treated in the hospital, died in March when staff failed to act after oxygen ran out in…

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