5 COVID Patients die in Haryana's Hisar district due to Shortage of Oxygen

Hisar: Five more COVID patients died in a private hospital in Haryana's Hisar district on Monday due to the shortage of oxygen. This is the third incident in the last 24 hours in the state.

Agitated relatives of some of the patients staged a protest outside the hospital.

According to sources, three patients died in the ICU, while one patient died in the ward. The hospital has limited oxygen supplies. The hospital officials are repeatedly telling the administration about this and have been sending them reminders. They have been sending empty oxygen cylinders to vendors to fill them again. Since 9 AM, the officials have been telling the authorities that the hospital has limited stock. They also said that they have a consumption of 300 medical oxygen cylinders per day. Read more

There are 114 COVID patients admitted to the hospital.

Hisar Deputy Commissioner Priyanka Soni said that a probe will be conducted into the deaths. A medical negligence board has been set up.

Today's incident is among the many deaths that have happened over the past few days in several hospitals of the national capital Delhi and other states due to lack of oxygen.

As many as 25 critically ill COVID patients had died last week in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi due to lack of oxygen. Sir Ganga Ram is among the premier hospitals of Delhi. Read more

Another 25 patients died at the Jaipur Golden Hospital, Delhi due to lack of oxygen. This too happened last week.

Six patients died at a private hospital in Amritsar due to a shortage of oxygen.

Twenty-two COVID patients died in a Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC) hospital after an abrupt drop in pressure due to leakage in the oxygen tanks of the hospital.

India has witnessed a new highest single-day spike in the cases of the novel coronavirus as a deadly second wave sweeps the country with 3.52 lakh new cases and 2,812 COVID-induced fatalities, taking the total active caseload in the country to 28.07 lakh cases. So far, there have been 1.95 lakh COVID-induced deaths from across the nation. The fresh surge in the cases of this deadly infectious disease takes the total tally of cases to 1.73 crores. Today marks the fifth consecutive day that India reported over 3 lakh cases on a daily basis. A staggering 10 lakh cases have been reported in the last 72 hours. Read more

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