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.
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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."
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