Letters: Escaping responsibility

With reference to the editorial, “Seeking accountability” (August 15), the death of children due to disruption of oxygen supply at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College in Gorakhpur was an index of the invisible India. But for the poverty of their parents, the children would not have died in this manner in a government hospital. Aren’t their lives as valuable as ours?
 
Hospitals turn into death traps when they do not maintain facilities, including lifesavers such as oxygen cylinders. Greater sensitivity and quicker action to ensure uninterrupted supply of oxygen could have saved the children.
 
To cite unhygienic