Noida: Private hospital sealed after oxygen pipeline explodes twice in 15 hours
Noida (PTI): Authorities have sealed a private hospital here and suspended its licence after its medical oxygen pipeline exploded twice within 15 hours, health department officials said on Monday.
No casualties have been reported in the incident, they said.
All patients were shifted to other hospitals after the second blast at Mark Hospital in Sector 66, which occurred on Monday evening, officials said.
The first explosion took place around noon on Sunday due to a short circuit near the intensive care unit (ICU) on the ground floor of the 49-bed facility located in the Phase 3 area, they added.
After the second blast, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Narendra Kumar, Deputy Chief Medical Officer (DCMO) Dr. Chandan Soni, Health Department Advisor Shweta Khurana, and other officials reached the spot.
Several patients were transferred to nearby Kailash Hospital and Om Hospital, officials said, adding that a patient remains admitted to the ICU, while two others have been referred to Delhi.
According to officials, information about the remaining patients is being collected.
DCMO Soni said the hospital was sealed and its licence has been suspended due to negligence of the hospital management.
A joint committee has been formed to investigate the incident, he said.
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Madhya Pradesh: BJP leader assaults blind woman in Church
Jabalpur: Anju Bhargava, vice-president of BJP's Jabalpur city unit, has come under sharp scrutiny, creating the ripples of political controvery in Madhya Pradesh, after a video surfaced online showing her physically assaulting a visually impaired woman inside a church.
The New Indian Express has reported that the said incident reportedly took place on Saturday (20 Dec) at a church in the Hawa Bagh area, which comes under the limits of Gorakhpur police station.
The video footage that has circulated widely on Monday shows Anju Bhargava, assaulting the blind woman in the presence of a police officer. In the video, Bhargava is seen shouting at the woman, twisting her arm and forcibly grabbing her face. The victim can be heard pleading to Bhargava to speak to her rather than resorting to physical violence. Also, we can hear Bhargava screaming, “will be blind in her next birth too”
According to The Indian Express reports, Bhargava entered the church, with members of several Hindutva affiliated organisations, alleging that the visually impaired children were being forced into religious conversion; But, the students present at the church have flatly denied all the allegations.
An unnamed police officer cited in media reports states that there was no evidence to support claims of forced religious conversion. The incident has since intensified political debate in the state, with opposition parties demanding accountability and action against those involved.
