6 COVID-19 patients die due to low pressure oxygen in Madhya Pradesh hospital

At least six COVID-19 patients died in the ICU of a authorities hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Shahdol due to low pressure in medical oxygen provide, an official mentioned on Sunday.

The incident befell on the Government Medical College Hospital in Shahdol on the intervening evening of Saturday and Sunday.

“Out of 62 patients admitted in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ward of the medical college’s COVID-19 centre, six patients died due to low pressure of liquid oxygen late last night,” the power’s dean, Dr. Milind Shiralkar, mentioned.

The different crucial patients are protected, he mentioned.

“Experts have been called and the causes are being ascertained,” he mentioned.

Dr. Shiralkar mentioned the liquid oxygen provide on the hospital was operating out by late Saturday night.

Suppliers had been being contacted continuously, however the automobile didn’t attain until late evening, due to which the pressure of oxygen equipped to the patients was decreased, he mentioned.

The official mentioned there was scarcity of oxygen provide since the previous few days.

The oxygen plant on the campus has a storage capability of 10 kilo litres per day, the official mentioned, including that liquid oxygen is introduced from different states.

The hospital has 62 ICU beds the place crucial COVID-19 patients are admitted, he added.

Meanwhile, Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kamal Nath requested the federal government how lengthy the deaths due to lack of oxygen will proceed in the State.

In a tweet, Mr. Nath mentioned, “Now very sad news of deaths due to lack of oxygen is coming from Shahdol? Why didnt the government wake up even after deaths in Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain, Sagar, Jabalpur, Khandwa, Khargone due to shortage of oxygen? After all, how long will deaths continue due to lack of oxygen in the State?”

Terming the scenario as scary, Mr. Nath additionally mentioned there was a scarcity of Remdesivir injections used in the remedy of coronavirus, and alleged that the important thing anti-viral drug and oxygen had been accessible solely on paper and never in actuality.

The State authorities has not but reacted to the Shahdol incident.

According to the State’s well being bulletin, 142 recent circumstances of the viral an infection had been detected in Shahdol on Saturday, taking the caseload in the district to 4,528.

Till Saturday, the district reported 38 fatalities due to the an infection for the reason that pandemic started.