The disruption of medical oxygen provide was brought on by leakage from a storage plant, officers earlier stated
Police registered an FIR towards unidentified individuals on Thursday in reference to the demise of twenty-two COVID-19 sufferers at a hospital in Nashik following the disruption of oxygen provide, an official stated. The incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon when the oxygen provide to sufferers stopped abruptly due to a malfunction in the principle storage at Dr Zakir Hussain Hospital, run by the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC).
An FIR was registered in the early hours of Thursday on the Bhadrakali police station in Maharashtra’s Nashik metropolis towards unidentified individuals below Indian Penal Code Section 304-A (inflicting demise by negligence), the official stated. A complete of 157 sufferers have been present process remedy in the 150-bed COVID-19 hospital when the incident occurred, the NMC had stated.Â
The deceased, together with 10 ladies, have been in the age group of 33 to 74 years, it stated. The disruption of medical oxygen provide was brought on by leakage from a storage plant, officers earlier stated. They stated the incident occurred when oxygen was being crammed in one of many tanks from a tanker, which disturbed the availability to the sufferers who have been on ventilators in addition to to these depending on oxygen for respiratory.
The Maharashtra authorities on Wednesday introduced a probe into the incident by a seven-member committee and Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray stated monetary help of Rs 5 lakh could be offered to the households of every sufferer.
