COVID-19 patient dies during power outage in Yadgir hospital
A COVID-19 patient admitted in the ICU of a authorities hospital close to Mudnal on the outskirts of Yadgir died during a power outage in the hospital in the early hours of Friday. The deceased, a 30-year-old man from Nagarabandi village, was admitted to the hospital three days in the past.
His members of the family mentioned disruption in oxygen provide attributable to the power outage was the explanation for his dying. They mentioned realising the patient’s issue in respiratory, they tried their greatest to revive him however failed.
District surgeon S.B. Hiremath, nonetheless, dismissed the cost saying that the dying was not attributable to the power outage because the oxygen provide was not disrupted even after the outage. As per info offered by officers in the Health and Family Welfare Department and engineers in Gulbarga Electricity Company Ltd., there was a power outage for one and a half hours.
Efforts to renew power provide utilizing a neighborhood generator went in useless because the generator had run out of gas, pushing the 250-bed hospital into darkness and sufferers into distress.
Attenders of sufferers in the hospital switched on their cell phone lights to handle issues.
Raghavendra D., govt engineer of Gescom, informed The Puucho {that a} technical drawback on the hospital premises led to the power outage. “Oxygen supply in the hospital is not dependent on electricity as it functions independently on mechanical power. When the power outage occurred, only the usage of fans and lights was affected. It did not have any effect on oxygen supply.”