In yet another hospital tragedy in the country in the recent days, 24 patients, 23 of them covid-infected, died in Karnataka s Chamarajanagar due to alleged oxygen shortage in the district hospital in the last 24 hours, with the government warning of stringent action against those found guilty. The government ordered a probe into the matter and appointed senior IAS officer Shivayogi Kalasad as the inquiry officer. The incident evoked a sharp response from the Congress, with party leader Rahul Gandhi wondering how much more suffering before the system wakes up. In heart-breaking episodes preceding today s incident in the country, a fire at a mall in Mumbai housing a Covid- designated hospital in March left nine, including those on ventilators, dead, while 22 COVID-19 patients who were either on ventilator or oxygen support, suffocated to death when their oxygen supply stopped suddenly due to a malfunction in the main storage at a civic hospital in Nashik.