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Nashik: Oxygen leak leaves 22 Covid-19 patients dead in India

[서울=아시아뉴스통신] 레악카나기자 송고시간 2021-04-22 07:26

India has started an Oxygen Express to transport the gas to states that need it. (Photo by= Getty Images)

[Asia News Communication = Reporter Reakkana] At least 22 Covid patients left dead in a hospital in India after they lost oxygen supply due to a leak. BBC reported that the incident occurred on Wednesday while an oxygen tanker was refilling a storage tank at the Zakir Hussain hospital in Nashik city.

It's unclear how the accident happened and why it interrupted supply to patients. But officials said there was no oxygen flowing to ventilators for about 30 minutes, leading to the deaths. "We will enquire into the matter and take action," the city's municipal commissioner Kailash Jadhav said. The hospital had called in tankers after it had begun to run out of oxygen. Hospitals across the country are struggling to keep the oxygen supply going amid soaring demand.

"We want strict action against the culprits," Amol Vyavhare, whose grandmother was one of the patients who died due to a lack of oxygen, told BBC Marathi. Maharashtra, where Nashik is located, is one of India's states worst affected by a coronavirus and is facing a huge shortfall in oxygen. India is in the middle of a deadly second wave of infections, recently reporting more than 200,000 cases daily. The surge has overwhelmed the country's hospitals, creating a shortage of not just oxygen but also beds and life-saving drugs.



 

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