The hospital employee said the facility had been facing some problem with its AC system in the COVID-19 ward since Thursday afternoon.
'There was not a single employee inside the ICU to help the patients come out'
The fire in the ICU of a hospital in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district is one more in a series of devastating blazes in the state, claiming lives of coronavirus patients.
The tragedy comes two days after 22 COVID-19 patients who were either on ventilator or oxygen support, suffocated to death when their oxygen supply stopped suddenly due to a malfunction in the main storage at a civic hospital in Nashik.
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