The epidemic in India continues to worsen, with the number of people infected in a single day exceeding 400,000, a global record. To add insult to injury, a hospital in Gujarat, a state in western India that treats newly crowned patients, caught fire overnight April 30. At least 18 people died, including two medical staff, officials said.
The intensive care unit at Patel Welfare Hospital in Bharuch, 115 miles (185 kilometers) south of Gujarat’s main commercial city of Ahmedabad, caught fire in the middle of the night on Friday, Reuters reported. The hospital is the designated site for the admission of new crowns.
“Sixteen patients and two staff members died in the fire,” said R.V. Chudasama, Bharuch’s police chief. .
He added, “Preliminary investigations indicate that the fire was caused by a short circuit.”
The local news showed footage of a hospital ward that was completely destroyed in the fire.
Parth Gandhi (Parth Gandhi) said, “The scene was chaotic because of the fire …… Hospital staff hurriedly evacuated my family members from the ward and we took them to another hospital by car.” Two of Gandhi’s family members were COVID-19 patients and escaped the disaster.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in a tweet that he was saddened by the loss of life caused by the fire at a hospital in Bharuch.
India has been hit by a “tsunami” of new crowns over the past few days, causing the healthcare system to collapse.
India reported 401,993 new infections in the past 24 hours, the first time the country has had more than 400,000 new cases in a single day and a cumulative total of more than 19 million infections, according to a report Saturday. According to a CNN summary of Indian Ministry of Health data, this is the 10th consecutive day that India has added more than 300,000 new cases per day. It is also the first country in the world to surpass 400,000 new cases per day.
The number of new deaths in the past 24 hours was 3,523, bringing the cumulative death toll to 211,853, the fourth consecutive day the country has had more than 3,000 deaths per day.
Crematoriums are too busy to cremate the remains due to the high death toll. The worst-hit area in India is the capital, Delhi, where local hospitals are already overwhelmed with a severe shortage of medical oxygen and drugs, and families of the sick are seeking help on social media.
India’s epidemic tensions, the EU’s 27 member state leaders on the 8th and India’s Prime Minister Modi held a European-Indian video summit, originally scheduled to discuss strengthening regional political and economic and trade cooperation, but the current epidemic in India is serious, the two sides will discuss assistance to fight the epidemic, will be issued after the joint statement.
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