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.
An oxygen tanker leaked while tankers were being filled at Dr Zakir Hussain Hospital. (Photo: ANI)
MUMBAI: At least 22 patients died on Wednesday due to the interrupted supply of oxygen at a civic hospital for Covid-19 patients in Nashik in Maharashtra following the leakage from an oxygen storage plant, district collector Suraj Mandhare said. As per the current information, 22 people have died due to the interrupted supply of oxygen at the Zakir Hussain municipal hospital. The patients were on ventilators as well as on oxygen supply, which got interrupted after the leakage in the oxygen supply tank, he told reporters.