A patient with suspected coronavirus in India died after his family allegedly unplugged his ventilator so they could switch on an air cooler. The astonishing incident took place last Monday in the Maharao Bhimsingh Hospital in the North Indian state of Rajasthan. The patient was a 40-year-old man who ended up on a ventilator in a makeshift coronavirus isolation unit after arriving at the hospital with breathing difficulties. But he died when his family unwittingly switched off his ventilator so they could plug in their own air cooler which they had brought to combat the high temperatures. The family had brought the air cooler because the hospital's air conditioning had been switched off to limit the spread of coronavirus, leading to a temperature of around 106 fahrenheit (41 degrees Celsius).

Source: Daily Mail June 23, 2020 08:39 UTC