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At least 22 Covid patients have died after they lost oxygen supply for around 30 minutes due to a leak. The incident occurred on Wednesday, April 21, while an oxygen tanker was refilling a storage tank at the Zakir Hussain hospital in Nashik city.
According to Nashik district collector Suraj Mandhare, the supply was interrupted after a leakage in one of the storage tankers at Dr. Zakir Hussain Municipal Hospital.
All the victims were on ventilators and in need of constant oxygen supply before the incident occurred. Video from the scene showed gas leaking from the tanker outside the hospital with white fumes covering the area rapidly.
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1 Medical oxygen gas leaks out from a storage unit, which led to interruption in supply of oxygen to COVID-19 patients at Zakir Hussain Municipal Hospital, in Nashik, on Wednesday, April 21, 2021. PTI
Nashik/Mumbai, April 21
At least 24 COVID-19 patients on ventilator support suffocated to death on Wednesday when their oxygen supply stopped suddenly because of a malfunction in the main storage at a civic-run hospital in Nashik in Maharashtra, officials said.
The government will probe if the tragedy at the Dr Zakir Husain Hospital was due to negligence, Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said.
A private company looked after the tank maintenance at the hospital, District Collector Suraj Mandhare said, adding technicians closed the tank valve preventing more deaths.
Nashik Oxygen Tanker Leak Kills 22 COVID Patients Apr 21, 2021, 16:49 IST
Gas Leak at Maharashtra Hospital
22 Dead due to Disruption in Oxygen Supply.
In a tragic incident that occurred in Nashik, Maharashtra today, 22 patients lost their lives. These patients were put on a ventilator and needed oxygen supply but after the tank leaked outside the hospital, the supply to these patients was interrupted.
Speaking on the matter, the district collector Suraj Mandhare confirmed the death of 22 patients and said that it was a result of an oxygen tank leak at the Zakir Hussain municipal hospital. This hospital is completely dedicated to treating Covid patients. Out of all the patients admitted here, at least 150 of them were on ventilators or constant oxygen supply. The sudden interruption in the supply resulted in their death.