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A HARROWING MEDICAL CRISIS.

A DOCTOR IN THE EYE OF THE STORM.

HIS ACCOUNT OF WHAT REALLY HAPPENED.

On the evening of 10 August 2017, liquid oxygen ran out at the state-run Baba Raghav Das Medical College’s Nehru Hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh. Reportedly, over the next two days, more than eighty patients –...