RantCrush Top 5: August 14, 2017

Indian officials have suspended the head of a hospital where 60 children died over the last few days. The deaths are believed to have been caused by a cutoff of the medical oxygen supply after the hospital failed to pay its bills. Thirty-four of the deceased are infants. The hospital denied that it didn’t pay its bills and instead blamed encephalitis and “unspecified issues.” Then, the hospital chief blamed the state for not sending the hospital funds in time, and said that officials did not answer his repeated requests for money. Political tension has increased as accusations of corruption are levied. “This is a story that has been unfolding repeatedly in different parts of the country. Public health is a major casualty of corruption,” Sanjay Kapoor, editor of an Indian political magazine, said.

35 children die in Indian hospital in 3 days; parents blame lack of oxygen https://t.co/GwnvFoovRP pic.twitter.com/78bnMicYD7

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) August 13, 2017

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