NASHIK: District guardian minister Chhagan Bhujbal on Wednesday said they have a daily requirement of 139 metric tonnes of oxygen for the Covid-19 patients as the number of new cases has risen rapidly since March.
Earlier this year, the district had a requirement of 65 metric tonnes of medical oxygen per day, which gradually rose to 85 tonnes a day. “We now need 139 metric tonnes of oxygen per day in the district. We are taking all the efforts to get the oxygen, but there are limitations,” the guardian minister said.
The Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) has already installed two large oxygen tanks at its Bytco and Zakir Hussain hospitals, with a total capacity of 32,000 litres of liquid oxygen. They get regular supply of oxygen from the Pune-based private company, an Indian subsidiary of the Japanese firm, with which they have inked a 10-year contract.
An oxygen tanker leaked while tankers were being filled at Dr Zakir Hussain Hospital. (Photo: ANI)
NASHIK: Twenty-two critically ill Covid-19 patients, including 10 women, died on Wednesday afternoon after their oxygen supply was disrupted for over an hour due to a leak in the tank providing oxygen at Zakir Hussain Hospital managed by the Nashik municipal corporation (NMC).
Eleven of the deceased were on ventilator support and the other 11 on oxygen. The victims were aged between 33 and 75. The hospital is a dedicated Covid facility and had 157 patients, 131 of them on oxygen support. Sixty-three patients were critical and 15 of them on ventilator support when the leak occurred.
As many as 22 patients on ventilator support died after an oxygen tank leak disrupted the supply at a municipal hospital in Nashik on Wednesday. (ANI)
MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Thursday took suo motu (on its own) cognisance of the oxygen leak incident at a hospital in Nashik that led to the death of 22 Covid-19 patients, and sought a report from the Maharashtra government.
A bench of chief justice Dipankar Datta and justice G S Kulkarni directed advocate general (AG) Ashutosh Kumbhakoni to file an affidavit by May 4, explaining how the incident had occurred.
During the hearing, Kumbhakoni gave an oral summary of the incident that took place on Wednesday at Dr Zakir Hussain Hospital, run by the Nashik Municipal Corporation.