NEW DELHI: A local administrator in western India said on Wednesday that 22 patients died in a hospital when their oxygen supply was interrupted by leakage in a supply tank.
Suraj Mandhar, the district collector, said the oxygen supply has since been resumed to other patients.
Fire officer Sanjay Bairagi said the leakage was plugged by the fire service within 15 minutes, but there was supply disruption in the Zakir Hussain Hospital in Nashik, a city in Maharashtra state that is the worst-hit by the latest surge in coronavirus cases in the country.
Television images showed white fumes spreading in the hospital area, causing panic.
More than 170 patients were on oxygen in the hospital, according to local media.
COUNTRY’S COVID SURGE HITS NEW RECORD:
Meanwhile, India’s brutal new Covid outbreak set records on Wednesday with more than 2,000 deaths in 24 hours as hospitals in New Delhi ran perilously low on oxygen.
India has been in the grips of a second wave of infections blamed on lax government rules and a new “double mutant” virus variant, adding almost 3.5 million new cases this month alone.
Health ministry data on Wednesday showed a record 2,023 fatalities and 295,000 new cases in 24 hours, among the world’s biggest daily case totals and on a par with numbers seen in the United States during a deadly surge in January.
In an address to the nation on Tuesday night, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that the country of 1.3 billion people was “once again fighting a big fight”.
“The situation was under control till a few weeks back, and then this second corona wave came like a storm,” he said.
The GOI wants its people to die asap – as that is the ONLY way, to reduce the burden on the Hospital infra,and the Drugs supply chain
The GOI has found 1 ingenious tool – Oxygen supplies.There is insufficient supply, insufficient cylinders and insufficient truckers,Besides,no state wants to supply O2,as it fears a backlash, from its population
This ensures a minimum lead time of 19-15 days from loading the cylinders to the 1st breath in the patient in the hospital.A person on a Vent on Day 1 , WLL SURELY
DIE, BY DAY 10 !
And that is the plan !
The IDEA is to make the Hospitals,Docs and Patients,GET A REALITY CHECK, keep their EXPECTATIONS VERY LOW,and make them INNURED TO SHOCK !
Very soon, states will NOT return O2 cylinders,and will DEMAND A SWAP FOR FILLED 02 CYLINDERS !
The GOI could just AIRFREIGHT THE O2 AND EMPTY CYLINDERS AND REDUCE THE TRANSIT TIME ON BOTH LEGS TO ZERO – BUT IT WON’T – AS IT WANTS PEOPLE TO DIE AND THE HOSPITALS TO NOT GET TOO DEMANDING !
BUT THERE IS 1 MORE REASON – THE GOI IS IMPORTING 50000 TONS OF O2 – WHICH WILL BE SCAM – AND SO,THEY HAVE TO MAKE A STORY TO JUSTIFY THE IMPORTS !
OF COURSE A FEW MONTHS AGO,THE GOI EXPORTED 10000 TONS OF O2 – AT THAT TIME – THEY DID NOT HAVE THE SENSE TO DO A LOAN OR BARTER AND NOT A SALE !
DISASTER LIES AHEAD ! dindooohindoo !
At least 80% of the Indians on VENTS will be dead in 10 days !