Man arrested of stealing Oxygen Pipes at Bwaila Hospital

Police has arrested Grant Mpasu for allegedly cutting and stealing oxygen gas supplying pipes and electricity wires at Bwaila District Hospital’s labour ward worth 2.8 million kwacha

The suspect’s actions on 21^st March are said to have cut oxygen supply for patients and caused machine malfunctioning in the operating theater at labour ward

In the nursery as well also known as kangaroo section oxygen concentrators and other equipment stopped functioning which resulted into deaths of seven premature babies before the system could be restored using other alternatives