After a candle in memory of Covid patient was set alight in an ICU, three people died in Ukraine.
According to local custom, an employee at a hospital in Kosiv lit a candle.
In the intensive care unit of the hospital, five oxygen concentrators were operating. The equipment caught fire instantly.
Ukraine: Three deaths following the setting alight of a candle in memory of Covid patient in an ICU (file image).
According to the emergency services, “Ignorance of basic laws of physics has led to irreparable loss.”
They called it a terrible mistake.
Trois people, including two patients were also killed.
The severe burns were also treated in four other cases.
Because of poor safety standards and an ageing infrastructure, ex-Soviet countries are prone to deadly fires.
An oxygen explosion in February caused the death of one patient with coronavirus and left another hospitalized in Chernivtsi.
Four people were also killed in Zaporizhzhya, a southwestern town. The incident occurred after an explosion at the hospital’s intensive care unit. It was being used to treat coronavirus cases.