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A woman attending to a patient at Thiruvananthapuram Government Medical College sustained a mild forehead injury when the plastic cover of an oxygen cylinder's flowmeter detached and struck her, prompting her immediate transfer to the trauma ICU for observation, according to hospital authorities who clarified the incident occurred during an emergency where on-site regulation was necessary. This marks the second reported flowmeter-related incident at the medical college, following a similar occurrence in May 2025 where a trainee anaesthesia technician suffered a minor skull fracture from a detached flowmeter part, and adds to a pattern of such accidents, recalling another in March 2025 at SAT Hospital where a nursing assistant sustained a serious eye wound when a flowmeter burst.
KSEB power cut to an oxygen-dependent patient in Thalayolaparambu led to a community effort to restore the supply.
Oxygen plant inefficiency in Idukki Medical College has been unused for three years due to a narrow access road.
The fire force responded quickly on both occasions to seal the leak and resolve the situation.
According to the Cleveland Clinic, congenital methemoglobinemia doesn’t cause serious medical issues.
Customers are seated on a comfortable massage chair, passing the air straight to their nose through a tube.
The committee said it was "disturbed" by the ministry's "unfortunate denial" of COVID-19 deaths due to oxygen shortage.
During the Covid pandemic, a large number of patients required high levels of oxygen and admission to ICU for invasive ventilation
Researchers found that, as the disease became more severe, more immature RBCs flooded into blood circulation.
'Every woman of the country will be proud of you. Not only they, every Indian will feel proud of you,' the PM told Sireesha Gajini during his two-minute chat with her.
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