Moscow: Nine coronavirus patients died in a Russian hospital in the southern city of Vladikavkaz after an oxygen pipe burst underground, cutting supply to an intensive care ward, Russian news agencies reported on Monday.
"Nine patients with coronavirus died due to a lack of oxygen," the TASS news agency cited the local health ministry as saying.
"A total of 71 people were in intensive care, not all were (receiving) oxygen supply," TASS quoted the ministry as saying.
Regional authorities have agreed with the defence ministry to supply oxygen to all of the city's hospitals from the town of Mozdok, around 80 km (50 miles) north of Vladikavkaz, the RIA news agency reported.
"There was a burst in the oxygen pipe from the reservoir, which is underground, and the oxygen supply was stopped," the acting head of the North Ossetia region, where Vladikavkaz is located, was quoted as saying by RIA.
"Medical staff have started to connect the patients who are on ventilators to oxygen tanks. Oxygen tanks have started to arrive," acting North Ossetia head Sergei Menyailo said.
Russia's federal health watchdog, Roszdravnadzor, will investigate the case, the Interfax news agency reported.
SOURCE: REUTERS
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