Newsquat | 24/04/21 | Jay Hind Express
Fourteen COVID-19 patients died after a fire broke out at the intensive care unit of a private hospital in Palghar district of Maharashtra on Friday, police said.
While 13 were charred to death in the ICU, one patient died while being taken to another hospital, an official said.
There were 83 patients in the hospital, 17 of them in the ICU when the fire broke out after a blast in the AC unit, an official said.
Delhi govt deputes teachers for monitoring of dead bodies upsets teachers' association
Ramnivas Solanki, the general secretary of the MCD Teachers'' Union, said, "The move to depute teachers for counting dead bodies in morgues is not apt for the post of a teacher, hence they should be relieved of this duty."
BKU leader Gurnam Singh Chaduni said protesting farmers should not be compelled to get themselves tested or vaccinated, and if health workers tried to force them, they will not allow them to enter protest sites.
A few days ago, Haryana's Home and Health Minister Anil Vij had said the farmers sitting at Haryana's borders with Delhi will be tested and vaccinated.
"If they try to force us, then we will not even allow them to enter (protest sites)," said Chaduni, adding that testing or vaccination should be left to farmers' choice.
Report: Foram Bhatt
