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NAGPUR: A team of Jaripatka police, including the night officer, is facing an inquiry after using strong arm tactics to arrange oxygen cylinders for 15 critical Covid patients’ in ICU of a private hospital on Kamptee road. The officer got the cylinders to the hospital that had barely two hours’ supply left by virtually robbing an oxygen plant.
It is learnt the management of the Nimunabai Tirpude Hospital sent a message to Jaripatka police station shortly after the Sunday midnight that lives of 15 Covid patients was at risk as oxygen supply may not last after 5 am. The hospital received its regular oxygen supply from a Mouda-based plant which was not responding to their repeated calls, said Dr Shivaji Supalkar of the Tirpude Hospital. The plant also did not even allow Tirpude Hospital’s vehicle to enter its premises.