An oxygen tanker leaked while tankers were being filled at Dr Zakir Hussain Hospital. (Photo: ANI)
NASHIK: Twenty-two critically ill Covid-19 patients, including 10 women, died on Wednesday afternoon after their oxygen supply was disrupted for over an hour due to a leak in the tank providing oxygen at Zakir Hussain Hospital managed by the Nashik municipal corporation (NMC).
Eleven of the deceased were on ventilator support and the other 11 on oxygen. The victims were aged between 33 and 75. The hospital is a dedicated Covid facility and had 157 patients, 131 of them on oxygen support. Sixty-three patients were critical and 15 of them on ventilator support when the leak occurred.