An oxygen tank spill at a public hospital in Nashik, Maharashtra, India, killed 22 New Crown patients on Wednesday, city officials said.
Newly crowned patients are being treated at a hospital in the Indian capital New Delhi (Reuters 2021, April 15)
Newly crowned patients are being treated at a hospital in the Indian capital New Delhi (Reuters April 15, 2021)
Suraj Mandhare, a municipal official in Nasik, said an oxygen tank outside the Zakir Hussein public hospital in Jharkir had overflowed, causing a half-hour interruption in oxygen supply.
He told Reuters, “The oxygen tank was being inflated when the spill occurred, resulting in the death of 22 patients.”
Firefighters plugged the spill within 15 minutes, fire official Sanjay Bairagi said.
Footage was shown showing white smoke rising from the hospital.
Police officer Surinder Sonone said there was a leak in a pipe connecting the oxygen supply to a major oxygen filling in the hospital. He also said five of the 140 newly crowned patients in the hospital were taken to another hospital.
Maharashtra Health Minister Rajesh Tope said the state government has ordered an investigation into the leak.
India has seen a sharp increase in new crown cases recently, with Maharashtra the state hardest hit by the outbreak, with more than a quarter of the total number of infections across India each day.
India added 290,541 new cases of new crown on Wednesday and 2,023 deaths, bringing the total number of deaths to 182,553, the health ministry said.
Recent Comments