Book Reviews
Seventy people died in the 2017 Gorakhpur oxygen tragedy — but no one is responsible
Kafeel Khan. The Gorakhpur Hospital Tragedy: A Doctor’s Memoir of a Deadly Medical Crisis. Pan Macmillan India, Delhi, 2021. 300 pages, INR 219.86 (paperback), INR 208.87 (Kindle), ISBN: 9789390742714
This book is a first-person account by a young paediatrician in Uttar Pradesh, India, who was involved in helping save lives in a massive hospital tragedy in 2017. It was precipitated by the lack of oxygen supplies, killing 63 children and several adults [1]. The doctor was made the fall guy by the state and put through grave injustice.
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