An anti-coronavirus service from a hospital in Bareilly, in western Uttar Pradesh, was flooded with rainwater.
Bareilly:
An anti-coronavirus service from a hospital in Bareilly, in western Uttar Pradesh, was inundated with rainwater after a pipe installed on the ceiling suddenly burst on Saturday afternoon.
Spectacular visuals of the incident, filmed on a cell phone by a patient inside the room, showed a heavy jet of water falling from a large hole in the ceiling.
After the video of the incident went viral on social media, Bareilly’s assistant magistrate, Ishan Pratap Singh, said the incident occurred at a private medical college operating as a Covid-19 hospital, in due to “plumbing failure” during construction work in progress at the hospital.
He added that the pipeline had been repaired and that the patients had been transferred to a different department.
“We learned the video late at night. It is a private medical college where our staff are also assigned. As soon as we learned, we discovered that there was a plumbing failure, due of construction activity causing rainwater to come in, “said Singh.
“We immediately transferred the patients and things are now normal,” he added.
This is not the first instance of mismanagement of the Covid-19 hospital and services in the state.
On Thursday, a positive COVID-19 boy in a public hospital in Barabanki district posted a video on social media alleging poor conditions in a private district hospital that functions as a “level 1” COVID-19 hospital.
On Wednesday, another video from the prestigious BRD Medical College and Hospital in Gorakhpur was widely disseminated on social networks. The 24-second video showed a flooded room where the COVID-19 patients resided.
To date, at least 47,036 people have tested positive for coronavirus in Uttar Pradesh.
The number of active COVID-19 cases in the state now stands at 17,264, while 28,664 patients have recovered to date, said senior public health official Amit Mohan Prasad on Saturday.
