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Maha stunned as another hospital tragedy claims 15 patients
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10 perish in Maha Covid hospital ICU blaze Image Source: IANS News
Palghar, April 24 : For the second time in 48 hours, Maharashtra was shocked when at least 15 Covid-19 patients including five women, perished in a major fire that broke out in a private hospital in Virar town of Palghar district of Maharashtra, around 80 km north of Mumbai, early on Friday, officials said.
President R. N. Kovind, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Leader of Opposition (Assembly) Devendra Fadnavis and other leaders have expressed grief over the tragedy.
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Police registered an FIR against unidentified persons on Thursday in connection with the death of 22 COVID-19 patients at a hospital in Nashik following the disruption of oxygen supply, an official said. The incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon when the oxygen supply to patients stopped suddenly because of a malfunction in the main storage at Dr Zakir Hussain Hospital, run by the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC). An FIR was registered in the early hours of Thursday at the Bhadrakali police station in Maharashtra s Nashik city against unidentified persons under Indian Penal Code Section 304-A (causing death by negligence), the official said.
NASHIK: District guardian minister Chhagan Bhujbal on Wednesday said they have a daily requirement of 139 metric tonnes of oxygen for the Covid-19 patients as the number of new cases has risen rapidly since March.
Earlier this year, the district had a requirement of 65 metric tonnes of medical oxygen per day, which gradually rose to 85 tonnes a day. “We now need 139 metric tonnes of oxygen per day in the district. We are taking all the efforts to get the oxygen, but there are limitations,” the guardian minister said.
The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has already installed two large oxygen tanks at its Bytco and Zakir Hussain hospitals, with a total capacity of 32,000 litres of liquid oxygen. They get regular supply of oxygen from the Pune-based private company, an Indian subsidiary of the Japanese firm, with which they have inked a 10-year contract.