NASHIK: At the least 22 sufferers died on Wednesday as a result of interrupted provide of oxygen at a civic hospital for COVID-19 sufferers in Nashik in Maharashtra following the leakage from an oxygen storage plant, district collector Suraj Mandhare mentioned.
“As per the present info, 22 folks have died as a result of interrupted provide of oxygen on the Zakir Hussain municipal hospital.
#WATCH | An Oxygen tanker leaked whereas tankers had been being stuffed at Dr Zakir Hussain Hospital in Nashik, Maharashtra. Officers are current on the spot, operation to include the leak is underway. Particulars awaited. pic.twitter.com/zsxnJscmBp
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The sufferers had been on ventilators in addition to on oxygen provide, which received interrupted after the leakage within the oxygen provide tank,” he informed reporters.
He mentioned the municipal company instantly shifted the cylinders from the opposite services the place oxygen demand was not excessive.
Union Residence Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday expressed deepest condolences to the relations of sufferers who misplaced their lives in an oxygen leak incident in a hospital in Maharashtra’s Nashik.