Oxygen explodes in Lviv region at hospital treating COVID-19 patients

Patients from the hospital where the blast occurred are being evacuated to other hospitals in the region, the Lviv chief said.

At the Lviv Regional Hospital for War Veterans and the Suppressed, which is located in Vynnyky, an emergency situation with oxygen occurred. The mayor of Lviv, Andrey Sadovy, wrote about this on Friday night, November 20, on Facebook.

“Preliminary, we are talking about an explosion during refueling. Several patients who need artificial oxygen supply need an urgent evacuation to other medical facilities. Among the patients there are serious patients,” said the mayor.

According to him, the ambulance teams have gone to the scene. The Lviv Ambulance Hospital and the Eighth Hospital expressed their willingness to receive patients.

“I did not think that the new ‘covid’ building in Mikolaichuk, which we just opened, was needed so quickly,” wrote Sadovy.

He later added that the hospital is temporarily unable to supply oxygen.

“In total, there are 60 oxygen-dependent patients in the hospital. 30 will be received by the emergency hospital, five of them are in intensive care. 12 people are being transferred to the eighth hospital,” wrote the mayor of Lviv.

The Lviv Regional Veterans Hospital is one of the busiest medical institutions treating COVID-19 patients, the press service of the Lviv Regional Administration said.

There are 186 patients in the hospital, the oxygen network is operating at maximum load, it was reported.

By the end of the year, the hospital plans to install a new oxygen station. We are talking about a barrel with a capacity of 5 thousand liters of oxygen. Two stations and a new oxygen generator will allow to place 200 additional oxygen points and provide oxygen to the hospital by almost 90%, said the Regional State Administration.

According to the press service, there were 16 patients in the hospital’s intensive care unit, 13 were connected to artificial lung ventilation devices.

It was previously reported that the Cabinet of Ministers allocated an additional 900 million for oxygen for hospitals.

Stepanov also said that there are no problems with oxygen in Ukraine, but there is a problem with oxygen tanks in “coronavirus” hospitals.

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