Mumbai: 20 Covid patients among 58 shifted as LPG tank leaks at Kasturba hospital

At least 58 patients, 20 of whom were being treated for Covid-19, were shifted from the BMC-run Kasturba hospital at Agripada in central Mumbai and around 400 residents from nearby buildings were evacuated following liquid petroleum gas (LPG) leak at the hospital premises on Saturday.

The incident occurred at 11.34 am in the hospital’s LPG gas yard, which supplies gas for cooking and equipment sterilisation purposes. The capacity of the above-ground gas tank is 10 metric tonne (MT). It is suspected that the tank joint ruptured while excavation work was being undertaken in the vicinity.

At the time of the incident, the tank was half full. In over two hours after the incident, the storage had dropped to 3.5 MT.