In bid of surging cases of novel coronavirus people are dying in huge numbers. Amid such pandemic situation tragedies are devastating, earlier, covid hospitals caught fire and oxygen tank leakage. Lately, tragedy struck the renowned Ruia Hospital in Andhra Pradesh`s Tirupati on Monday.

In this incident 11 Covid patients lost their lives due to an interruption in oxygen supply, Chittoor District Collector Harinarayan said. The district authorities ascribed the deaths to a five-minute delay in the arrival of an oxygen tanker at the hospital. However, with the oxygen supply restored immediately, a major tragedy was averted. Around a thousand patients are undergoing treatment at the hospital. The oxygen supply is major medicine for now fir survival of covid patients. The supply getting affected all of a sudden at hospital led to many patients death. The patients started choking. Doctors were seen attempting CPR procedures to revive the oxygen-starved patients, while kin of the patients used cardboard pieces to fan and revive them.

An inquiry has been initiated into the incident. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy, who was apprised of the tragedy, has asked for a report.

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