Maharashtra Covid Patient Dies Hours After 'Dharna' With Oxygen Mask

Babasaheb Kole was seen on a 'dharna', wearing an oxygen mask connected to a cylinder, last evening outside the Nashik Muncipal Corporation's headquarters.

A 38-year-old coronavirus patient who had to sit on a protest outside the municipal corporation in Maharashtra's Nashik after allegedly being turned back by a number of hospitals died just after midnight on Thursday. Babasaheb Kole was seen on a 'dharna', wearing an oxygen mask connected to a cylinder, last evening outside the civic body's headquarters. After about an hour, an ambulance from the corporation took him to the municipal hospital. According to his family, at around midnight, his oxygen level went close to 40 per cent. A normal level of oxygen is usually 95 per cent or higher.