22 Covid Patients Dead After Oxygen Tanker Leak In Maharashtra

Wednesday, 21 April 2021Newsdesk

Twenty-two COVID-19 patients died today due to lack of oxygen in Nashik, the district's collector told NDTV, after an oxygen tanker leaked outside a hospital in the Maharashtra city causing oxygen supply to be halted for around 30 minutes.

New Delhi, 21 April 2021

"As per current information, 22 people have died due to the interrupted supply of oxygen at the Zakir Hussain municipal hospital," district collector Suraj Mandhare told NDTV. All the victims were on ventilators and in need of constant oxygen supply. Zakir Hussain Hospital is a Covid-dedicated facility. Around 150 patients were either oxygen-dependent or on ventilators.

Source -NDTV