India: Hospital fire, 13 COVID-19 patients died

A fire broke out at a hospital in western India on Friday morning that left 13 COVID-19 patients in the country’s complicated pandemic.

The fire at a hospital in the Virar area of ​​Mumbai suburbs occurred two days after 24 patients using the COVID-19 ventilator died from an oxygen leak at a hospital in Nashik, another city in the state Maharashtra. At the time of the fire, about 90 patients were being treated in the hospital, some patients needing oxygen were transferred to nearby hospitals. Dilip Shah, CEO of Vijay Vallabh Hospital, said the fire in the intensive care unit on the second floor had been extinguished. Cause of the fire is currently under investigation. The fire came as the state of Maharashtra, hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, is struggling with skyrocketing infections. 314,835 COVID-19 cases recorded in India on Thursday brought the total number of cases in the country since the pandemic began to 15.9 million, second only to the United States. This is also the 7th consecutive day that India has recorded a number of new cases above 200,000. The COVID-19 pandemic had gone badly and put the health system in this country at risk of collapse. Hospitals are overloaded with patients and a serious shortage of manpower. Many hospitals in the western and northern regions of India, including the capital New Delhi, announced that the supply of oxygen was about to be depleted. Sponsorship news