Eyewitnesses to the flood incident at a Covid center in Chiplun in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, in which eight patients died, shared the heartbreaking experience of the 45 people who were alive Stuck in hospital for 36 hours.
One of the witnesses said that 25 members of the Apranth Covid Center saved themselves by going to the other side of the building with the help of the bedsheets tied together.
However, some doctors and nurses stayed behind to take care of the 14 Covid-19 patients admitted to the hospital managed by Chiplun Nagar Parishad.
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8 patients died from a power failure
But unfortunately eight of the patients lost their lives when the ventilators stopped working due to the power outage caused by the flood and the non-working generator.
“Due to the rising water level, the generator went off, which resulted in the oxygen supply to the eight ventilators being cut off,” said Dr. Sanghmitra Phule, civil surgeon and director of Ratnagiri civil hospital.
“Eight of the 14 Covid patients died in the hospital while another six were moved to two other hospitals where they are under treatment and are in a safe condition,” she added.
One of the witnesses said that the people stuck in the hospital could not be helped because the current of the flood was “dangerously high”.
“Water bottles could not be sent”
However, Smita Patil and Nikhil Killekar had managed to send food packages to the stranded with the help of ropes. But water bottles could not be sent due to the weight.
Dr. Phule has also confirmed that an investigation is underway to find out what went wrong that day other than the rising flood.
More than 50 percent of the area of Chiplun, which is about 250 km from Mumbai and has a population of over 70,000, is flooded. On Friday, 500 people were rescued in Chiplun and aid centers were sent to the coastal city.
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BN Patil, the district collector of Ratnagiri, blamed illegal construction near the Vashisthi river bed and the discharge of water from the Kolkewadi Dam for the devastation in the coastal city.
“There were some illegal structures near the river bed that added to our misery. The backwater (from Kolakewadi), extremely heavy rainfall and illegal structures in the river bed – all of them contributed to the current situation. It’s partly a man-made disaster, ”he said.
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