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22 COVID-19 patients die in India after oxygen supply disrupted
Many hospitals in India are running short of oxygen cylinders used to supply ventilators for COVID-19 patients. (File photo: AFP/Manjunath Kiran)
21 Apr 2021 08:53PM (Updated:
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MUMBAI: Twenty-two COVID-19 patients at a hospital in India died on Wednesday (Apr 21) when the oxygen supply to their ventilators was disrupted by a leak.
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The 30-minute leak from an oxygen tanker stationed outside Dr Zakir Hussain Hospital in Nashik, about 200km north of Mumbai, cut off supply to the ventilators of more than 60 critically ill patients.
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New Delhi, Apr 21 (EFE).- At least 22 Covid-19 patients were killed on Wednesday at a hospital in India’s western state of Maharashtra, after a leak in an oxygen tank led to the supply being disrupted for dozens of patients connected to ventilators.
“As per current information, 22 people have died due to 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,” Nashik District Magistrate Suraj Mandhare told reporters.
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