As many as 75 Covid patients have died at the Goa Medical College and Hospital (GMCH), the state’s largest Covid facility, because of a shortage of oxygen.
The horror at the GMCH is continuing even as the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court is hearing petitions related to deaths during the “dark hours” at the premier hospital.
While the state government has not revealed the exact cause of recent deaths at the GMCH, it has told the HC that there were “logistic issues” related to the supply of medical oxygen to patients.
State Advocate General Devidas Pangam had told a bench of Justices Nitin Sambre and Mahesh Sonak that there were logistical issues involved in manoeuvring the tractor which carries the trolleys of oxygen and in connecting the cylinders to the manifold (group of large gas cylinders.
Local officials confirmed that 13 more patients, admitted in various Covid-19wards in the GMCH, died during the early hours of Friday.
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