Bengaluru, Aug 15 (UNI) A short circuit cut off the centralised oxygen line at CV Raman General Hospital in Indiranagar, a Covid-19 dedicated hospital due to which as many as 20 Covid-19 patients in the High Dependency Unit (HDU) were evacuated in an emergency and shifted to three other hospitals in the city in the wee hours of Saturday.
The hospital currently has 175 Covid-19 beds and has 80-90 patients. The oxygen supply was cut to 20 Covid-19 patients whose oxygen saturation was low. Immediately beds were identified in other hospitals, and patients had to traverse significant distances across the city to get to other health facilities when the time was of the essence.
16 Covid-19 patients were sent to Victoria Hospital near KR Market, which is 10 km away from CV Raman Gener Vydehi Hospital in Whitefield, 13 km away, and one patient was put on a ventilator in an ICU in Fortis Hospital, Cunningham Road, eight km away.