Thursday, the Amman Magistrates Court heard the testimony of the former Minister of Health Nathir Obeidat, in relation to the Al-Hussein Salt New Hospital incident case, which took place in March.

Obeidat said that the oxygen supply official at the hospital informed him that one of the two oxygen tanks was completely full the day before the incident and the other one was 75 percent full.

Obeidat stressed that what happened was ‘surprising.’

March 13, a technical defect in the Al-Hussein New Salt Hospital caused patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) to be cut off from oxygen. The incident claimed the lives of nine, with seven who were confirmed to have died from oxygen shortages.

On the same day of the incident, Obeidat announced that he had handed in his resignation to the Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh.

Obeidat declared that he bears a moral responsibility towards the incident.

"I take moral responsibility for the oxygen supply shortage in the New Salt Hospital."

According to the Minister of State for Media Affairs, Sakher Dudin, the resignation of the minister came by royal order.