{
 "no": 13,
 "id": "case-13",
 "sk": 20210501,
 "year": 2021,
 "date": "Apr to Jul 2021",
 "cat": "Public safety",
 "sev": "red",
 "title": "COVID second wave. The denial of the oxygen dead",
 "stamp": "Deaths denied and undercounted",
 "human": {
  "v": "<b>3.4 to 4.7 million</b> excess deaths estimated (WHO) against ~<b>0.5 million</b> official, and zero oxygen deaths admitted",
  "est": true
 },
 "cost": {
  "v": "Families left uncompensated for deaths the state refused to record",
  "est": false
 },
 "what": "As the Delta wave overran hospitals, patients died gasping in acute oxygen shortages while families begged for cylinders in the street.",
 "dodge": "The government told Parliament that no deaths due to lack of oxygen had been specifically reported by any state, a claim contradicted by hospitals, courts and the media. A parliamentary committee rebuked the ministry for its denial. When the WHO put India's real toll at up to ten times the official count, the government attacked the methodology rather than face the gap. The dead were disowned twice: once in the wards, once in the record.",
 "ministers": [
  {
   "n": "Harsh Vardhan / Mansukh Mandaviya",
   "r": "Health Ministers (2021)"
  },
  {
   "n": "Bharati Pravin Pawar",
   "r": "MoS Health who made the statement"
  }
 ],
 "pos": "The government said health is a state subject, that states had not reported oxygen-specific deaths, and it disputed the WHO estimate.",
 "alt": "Audit the oxygen deaths, publish an honest excess-mortality count, and compensate the families, exactly as the parliamentary committee recommended.",
 "sources": [
  {
   "label": "'No oxygen deaths' outrage (BBC)",
   "url": "https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-57911638",
   "tier": 2
  },
  {
   "label": "Panel: audit the deaths",
   "url": "https://www.deccanherald.com/india/covid-19-parliamentary-panel-recommends-audit-of-deaths-due-to-oxygen-shortage-1144652.html",
   "tier": 2,
   "archiveUrl": "http://web.archive.org/web/20260606202959/https://www.deccanherald.com/india/covid-19-parliamentary-panel-recommends-audit-of-deaths-due-to-oxygen-shortage-1144652.html"
  }
 ],
 "estimates": {
  "deaths": 4700000
 },
 "caseUrl": "https://whoisresponsible.xyz/case/case-13/"
}