The breathing apparatus that caused the fires in Russia was manufactured in the same factory.



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The fans that caused the fires at Moscow’s Spasokukotsky Hospital and St. George’s Hospital in St. Petersburg were manufactured on the same floor. This was announced today by TASS, citing police sources.

According to preliminary data, both devices are manufactured by the Ural instrument manufacturing plant. The device in Moscow short-circuited, after which a fire broke out. The exact causes of the St. Petersburg disaster are under investigation, the sources said.

Five people died in a fire that broke out this morning in the intensive care unit of St. George Hospital in the Russian city of Saint Petersburg, which receives patients with the new coronavirus.

All five patients were included on a ventilator, the emergency ministry said. About 150 people were evacuated. The cause of the fire, which has already been located, is assumed to be a short circuit of the respiratory system or its malfunction. The area of ​​the fire, which broke out in a room on the sixth floor, was 10 square meters.

St. George’s Hospital in St. Petersburg was one of the first in the city to be completely reused as an infectious disease hospital due to the epidemic.

On May 9, a fire broke out in the intensive care unit of a Moscow hospital due to a short circuit in a ventilator. The old woman connected to the device died. 295 people were evacuated.

Five people died in a fire this morning at St. George’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, one of the first in the city to be reused as an infectious disease hospital due to the Kovid-19 epidemic. On May 9, a fire in the intensive care unit of a Moscow hospital killed an elderly woman connected to the device.



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