Chennai: In one of the biggest tragedies of Chennai floods, 18 ICU patients at the MIOT hospital in city died on Friday morning due to failure of power and oxygen cylinders.
All 18 patients were on ventilator when they passed away early in the morning, Indian Express reported.
MIOT hospital (Madras Institute of Orthopaedics and Traumatology) is located near Guindy on the banks of Adyar river and was already flooded due to the incessant rains.
Authorities have shifted the bodies to Royapettah government hospital.
State health secretary J Radhakrishnan said that all the patients who died at the MIOT hospital were “highly critical”.
"MIOT Hospital was treating 575 patients when floods started; 75 critical patients were on ventilator," Radhakrishnan said.
"57 were shifted to diferent hospitals, 18 patients died. Reason of their death is unclear, investigation is underway," he added.
