In the early hours of April 22, 2021, a fire broke out in a hospital in the suburbs of Mumbai, India, killing 13 patients infected with the disease. A police officer inspects a burned room
In the early hours of April 22, a fire broke out in a hospital in the northern suburbs of Mumbai, killing 13 patients infected with the disease. The cause of the fire is still under investigation.
The fire broke out at about 3 a.m. Fire department official Morrison Khavari said: “Vijay Vallabh Hospital (Vijay Vallabh Hospital) intensive care ward when the blaze, 17 patients inside, 13 of them died in the fire, and four others were moved elsewhere.”
Kavali said, “The fire is now out.”
The accident in the Maharashtra city of Vasai-Virar, located in the northern district of Mumbai, is the latest in a series of tragedies that have struck India.
Two days ago, the province was disrupted by an oxygen leak from a hospital that killed 22 patients infected with the disease. Earlier this month, a fire also broke out in a private hospital in the province, when four people died. A fire at a clinic in Mumbai last month also claimed 11 lives.
Police stand guard as hospital staff move patients after a fire broke out at a hospital in suburban Mumbai, India, in the early morning hours of April 22, 2021.
India is battling a new wave of the Communist Chinese Viral Disease (COVID-19) epidemic, and they are desperately seeking assistance as they run out of oxygen, medicine, and hospital beds.
India has seen 4 million new confirmed cases this month alone, and on the 21st set an all-time Indian record with 315,909 new cases in a single day, breaking the record for new cases reported in a single day by any country in the world except China. This has strained its chronically underfunded health care system to the breaking point.
The Times of India quoted experts as saying that the severe shortage of oxygen supply and extra beds in hospitals reflects the near collapse of the health infrastructure, and that the crisis has been going on for weeks, and that the number of patients dying from lack of medical resources is likely to continue to increase.
The authorities attributed the fierce outbreak to the emergence of a mutant strain of the virus, coupled with the Indian government’s relaxed epidemic prevention policy, which has allowed large-scale religious and political gatherings in recent months.
In addition to Maharashtra, the province most affected by the epidemic, where medical resources are already in short supply, the Indian Express reports that New Delhi, Northern Province (UP), Gujarat and Haryana have been hit hard by the epidemic and are suffering from a severe shortage of oxygen supplies.
In addition to the lack of oxygen supply, there is also a shortage of intensive care beds, according to the New Delhi Municipal Corporation report, so far only 15 intensive care beds remain, of which only 4 beds are equipped with respirators; and only 10.5% of the number of general beds are available.
Jugal Kishore, head of community medicine at Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi, said the number of deaths is likely to increase because the health care system is overburdened.
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