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They were connected to artificial lung ventilators. Information about the incident is available on the Office’s website.
Portal 161.ru, citing a source in the Rostov-on-Don Ministry of Health, reports that several coronavirus-infected patients lying in the 20 city hospital suffocated because they had not received medical oxygen for a long time.
This information was confirmed by two doctors working at the hospital, reports newsru.com. One of them indicated that the hospital was deprived of medical oxygen due to supply problems.
“There was a (constant) lack of medical oxygen, and on October 12. – was absent for two hours (straight) from all floors of the hospital. Even those who initially had oxygen caught the air like fish thrown into the water, ”said a source from the Ministry of Health.
According to him, five people died in resuscitation, several more, in the general ward of the hospital. According to doctors, the lack of medical oxygen has forced hospital staff to constantly reduce their concentration in the mixture and temporarily disconnect some patients from lung ventilators to help the most seriously ill.
A total of October 12. Thirteen patients died at the city’s 20th hospital. True, the Rostov-on-Don Board of Health noted that the cause of death is being clarified.
Sergei Tiurin, head of the regional press service for monitoring the coronavirus situation, called the information that patients died from lack of oxygen as false.
Yelena Kozhuchova, deputy director of the Rostov-on-Don Administration of Social Affairs, also described the information as unreliable and said that the investigation was being carried out by investigating authorities.
“I hope that those who disseminate this information will be clarified and prosecuted,” he said, noting that if the link between the death of patients and the lack of oxygen is established, the authorities will draw the appropriate conclusions. So far no such information is available, writes RBC.
Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, also drew attention to the situation. He expressed the hope that the Rostov authorities will take the necessary measures.
“We do not know to what extent the information provided is true, we are used to verifying everything, but we have no doubt that the regional government will soon find out the truth,” Peskov was quoted as saying by RIA Novosti.
On Wednesday, 15,700 new cases of coronavirus infection were diagnosed in Russia every day, and 317 previously infected people died, most since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country, according to data released from the country’s operational headquarters that coordinates the fight against the epidemic.
The day before, the country recorded the largest daily increase in COVID-19 cases, with 16,319 confirmed infections.
A total of 269 dead patients with coronavirus infection were also reported Tuesday. Since the outbreak, a total of 1,447,335 COVID-19 cases have been identified across the country and 24,952 people have died. 10,952 patients were discharged from medical institutions during the previous day.
The number of patients discharged per day was more than 10,000 for the first time since the epidemic began and the total number of people treated and recovered in hospitals increased to 1,096,560.
The Russian government does not intend to impose another quarantine due to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases, Kremlin spokesman D. Peskov told reporters on Wednesday.
“It’s not debatable,” Peskov said, asking if another quarantine could be introduced into the country, given the growing number of new COVID-19 cases.
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