PANAJI: At least 13 more COVID-19 patients died on the Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH) within the early hours of Friday (May 14), a senior well being division official stated, taking to 75 the quantity of people that have succumbed on the government-run facility right here within the final 4 days. The horror on the GMCH is continuous even because the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court is listening to petitions associated to deaths in the course of the ‘darkish hours’ on the premier hospital.
While the state authorities has not revealed the precise explanation for latest deaths on the GMCH, it has advised the HC that there have been “logistic issues” associated to provide of medical oxygen to patients.
On Thursday, Advocate General Devidas Pangam had advised a bench of Justices Nitin Sambre and Mahesh Sonak that there have been logistical points concerned in maneuvering the tractor which carries the trolleys of oxygen and in connecting the cylinders to the manifold (group of huge fuel cylinders).”
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26 patients died at GMCH on May 11, 21 on May 12 and 15 on May 13
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The senior official confirmed that 13 more patients, admitted in numerous COVID-19wards within the GMCH, died in the course of the wee hours of Friday. The variety of patients who’ve died in the course of the “darkish hours (between 2 am and 6 am) on the hospital has touched 75 within the final 4 days. As per state authorities statistics, 26 patients had died on the GMCH in the course of the wee hours of Tuesday, adopted by 21 on Wednesday, 15 on Thursday and 13 on Friday (complete 75).
The HC is listening to a bunch of petitions on latest demise of COVID-19 patients on the GMCH allegedly due to lack of medical oxygen.
The Goa authorities had advised the HC on Thursday that in the course of the means of attaching the oxygen manifold there was some interruption, which ends up in fall of strain within the provide strains of oxygen to patients.”
“We have been defined that in this course of there was some interruption, which resulted in fall of strain within the provide strains of oxygen to the patients.
“It was pointed out that it is basically on account of these factors some casualties may have taken place,” the bench had stated.
“We expect the state administration to find out ways and means to overcome these logistical issues so that precious life is not lost on account of any deficiencies in the matter of supply of oxygen to patients,” the HC had stated.
Reacting to the deaths, Goa Forward Party president Vijai Sardesai stated the excessive court docket ought to “take over the affairs of the state as there is collapse of governance”.
