An oxygen cylinder is out of order in the infectious ward of the Murmansk Regional Clinical Hospital. P.A. Bayandin, according to the statement of the regional Ministry of Health on the government website.
According to the department, at 19:45 Moscow time a reducer (a device for maintaining gas pressure. – RBK) and the release of compressed oxygen occurred. The process was accompanied by a “clap” without a fire, the ministry said.
Nobody was hurt, a check is being carried out.
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Earlier, a source of “Interfax” in the emergency services said that the explosion of the balloon took place on the third floor of the hospital department. The Ministry of Emergency Situations told the agency that the volume of the balloon from the department where patients with coronavirus are treated was 2 liters.
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