Ruia tragedy attributed to stress on medical infrastructure
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The loss of life of 11 sufferers due to disruption in oxygen provide at Sri Venkateswara Ramnarain Ruia hospital on Monday evening is primarily attributed to the heavy stress on medical infrastructure. The sudden rush of sufferers requiring oxygen, particularly during the last 4 days, had a cumulative impact.
The temporary disruption within the stream of oxygen from the tank was stated to have induced the incident. Though a tanker from a plant in Sriperumbudur (Tamil Nadu) was scheduled to arrive at 5 p.m., it reached by 8.30 p.m. As the strain from the ‘near empty’ tank had come down by then, the authorities rushed in to present oxygen from bulk cylinders. The delay of 5 minutes concerned for the substitute, although unofficially pegged at 25 minutes by the kinfolk of the victims, induced the catastrophe.
Ruia hospital has 1,028 beds, of which 876 are marked for COVID-19 sufferers and the remaining for non-COVID circumstances. However, because the influx remained unabated within the final 4 days, the authorities tried to accommodate as many COVID circumstances as potential even on the non-COVID beds. According to superintendent K. Bharathi, 962 sufferers have been present process therapy as on Tuesday morning, with 250 of them tagged as ‘serious cases’. There are many extra within the triaging and testing areas.
The deceased have been among the many 135 being handled with ventilator assist on the ICU. “Around 40 suffered brief breathlessness due to low pressure from the bulk cylinder when it was being replaced, out of which 11 died,” defined the hospital’s nodal officer Hari Krishna. He stated yet one more tank could be put in in per week’s time.
Lack of manpower
Though the federal government has ensured further provide of oxygen in tune with the rising demand and donors additionally chipped in with munificent provide of tankers, lack of skilled manpower to function them stays a gray space. Sources within the know of issues revealed to The Puucho that just one unskilled, lowly-paid individual had been engaged to function the 5 to six oxygen tanks put in at Ruia in addition to the contiguous Government Maternity Hospital compounds.
Meanwhile, newly elected MP M. Gurumoorthy, MLA Bhumana Karunakar Reddy and Mayor R. Sireesha visited the hospital on Tuesday and inspected the measures taken to restore normalcy.
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