Fire Rips through ICU with Covid patients in India

[malaise]

https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-at-least-18-killed-in-india-covid-hospital-fire/a-57395179


At least 18 coronavirus patients were killed as a fire broke out in a hospital in western India, police said early Saturday.

Hospital workers and firefighters rescued dozens of other patients at the hospital in Bharuch, a town in Gujarat state. The rescued patients were in a stable condition, the Associated Press quoted police officer B.M Parmar as saying.

The fire broke out at around 1:00 a.m. local time (0730 UTC) in a COVID-19 ward on the ground floor. Responders extinguished the fire within an hour, police said.

Patients were being shifted to nearby hospitals, according to the Asia News International agency.

[Kid Berwyn]

1. Often immobile, ICU patients are at the mercy of the hospital.

Heartbreaking.

[Hugin]

2. ...

How terrible.

I wonder if leaking O2 contributed to the problem.

[malaise]

3. I heard something about a short circuit, but the fire that killed over 80

in a hospital in Iraq last week was linked to an oxygen leak.
It's as if the pandemic isn't enough!

[Lovie777]

4. Damn . ..

[MLAA]

5. As if COVID isn't enough. Heartbreaking.

[uponit7771]

6. bunch of pure o2

[MoonRiver]

7. ...

[malaise]

8. And to make matters worse India broke the record today

with over 400,000 new Covid cases in one day.