AMMAN — The husband of
one of the individuals who died following a power outage at
Gardens Hospital is
disputing the hospital director’s claims that her death was unrelated to the
outage, as a minister vowed to intensify oversight to prevent such incidents in
the future.
اضافة اعلان
The late Sanaa Al-Najjar's husband, Ziad
Al-Daghamin, who has a PhD in Islamic law, told
Jordan News that
“the reason for my wife’s death in Gardens Hospital is a power outage, which
led to an oxygen shortage for seven to eight minutes.”
He stressed that the power outage occurred only
in the hospitals’ monitors. He also denied Gardens Hospital director’s claim
that he called him at 5 pm informing him that his wife’s condition was getting
worse.
The husband also said that his three children
were with the mother on the day of the power outage. Doctors and nursing staff
worked on providing CPR to his wife, but to no avail. He also said that a video
documents the incident.
He mentioned that his wife’s health was good
until the date of her second dose of the
Sinopharm vaccine on June 21. She was unable to take the vaccine because
she started showing flu-like symptoms. She was advised by medical staff at
vaccination centers to get tested for
COVID-19 and tested
positive.
She was then hospitalized and slowly began to
recover.
He also denied the hospital director’s claims
that the monitors work automatically in the state of any power outage.
The outage occurred late on Saturday night. One
individual died shortly before the outage and another died around an hour and a
half after.
"The cause of the two deaths was not
related to the power outage, but their health condition was critical," the
director of Gardens Hospital, Fayez Abu Humaidan, told Jordan News.
He said that the hospital has three generators and that the hospital’s devices
can continue to work for twenty minutes after the electrical source is cut off.
Director of Forensic Medicine at Al-Basheer
Hospital Hassan Al-Hawari said in remarks to
Jordan News that
"the forensic team is still working on the process of autopsy, and the
general prosecutor is supervising the process."
Minister of State for Media Affairs and
Government Spokesperson Sakher Dudin said Saturday night in a statement that
the Public Attorney office was tasked by the government to initiate an
investigation into the incident and come up with an "impartial and
accurate report."
The issue of the power outage at
was top on the agenda of Monday meeting of the Lower House’s Health and
Environment Committee on Monday, which summoned Minister of Health Firas
Al-Hawari.
The committee’s chair, Ahmed
Al-Sarahneh, told
Jordan News following the meeting that that the hearing was
held to discuss on the power outage which hit Gardens hospital earlier this
week.
“We stressed that the ministry must
take action and monitor all hospitals and their affiliated centers, while it
must also pay regular field visits, review the laws governing the work of
hospital, and conduct quality and accreditation exams following the
international standards,” a panel member said.
During the meeting, Hawari noted
that what happened in the Gardens Hospital was caused by an "electrical
short-circuit that may occur in any hospital in the world," noting that
the death case was found to have a severe pulmonary embolism caused by a lack
of oxygen. The health minister vowed that his ministry “would do everything
possible to avoid such incidents in the future.”
Amman
Public Attorney Hassan Al-Abdallat has decided to form a five-member
investigation team to look into Gardens Hospital power outage. The team commenced
the investigation procedures, by inspecting the incident, securing the medical
files of the dead, and collecting all evidence that would help in the
investigation. An autopsy was carried out by the National Center for Forensic
Medicine at Al-Bashir Hospital to stand at the cause of death.
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