TN: 13 Patients Die Overnight At Govt Hosp In Chengalpet, Due To Oxygen Shortage

Mumbai: Over 13 patients died overnight in a government hospital in the Chengalpet district of Tamil Nadu. Relatives attributed the lack of oxygen to the deaths, however, the district administration denied the charge.

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The District Collector said that the hospital has sufficient reserves of oxygen and the incident occurred due to a technical problem in the oxygen supply line. He said that out of 23 patients, only one was a COVID-19 patient.

The technical problem has already been fixed and the cause of the malfunction is being reached, the collector said.

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Meanwhile, many hospitals in Chennai are battling beds and lack of oxygen amid the second wave of coronavirus. As Tamil Nadu is witnessing a surgeon in the number of daily coronavirus cases during the second wave of COVID, hospitals in the state capital reported medical oxygen shortages.

(With Agency Inputs) 

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