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Faridabad: Toxic gas kills four sanitation workers working in the sewer at a Faridabad hospital

Police said that the four workers had been coming to the hospital for several months and this time they went in without any safety equipment and ended up falling unconscious while working in the sewer and later died while undergoing treatment. They had been engaged by an agency which had been given the contract by the hospital.

Abhijeet Christopher Loreng

Updated Oct 5, 2022, 23:56 IST

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Faridabad: In another case of civic apathy four sanitation workers lost their lives after they inhaled toxic gases while cleaning the underground sewer at a hospital in Faridabad on Wednesday afternoon. The four workers have been identified as Rohit, his brother Ravi, Vishal and Ravi Goldar.

Police said that all the four were residents of Sanjay Camp in Delhi’s Dakshinpuri and had come to the QRG Hospital in Sector 16, Faridabad to clean the sewar through an agency named Santosh Allied Service, Times of India reported.

Addressing the media ACP, Central, Mohinder Verma said that the “The four had entered the manhole without any safety equipment to clean. While they were cleaning the sewar they ended up inhaling poisonous gas and were suffocated and fell unconscious. When they cried for help, their colleagues and hospital staff rushed to help them. All four were pulled out immediately and admitted to the hospital.”

However, “Soon after, they all died during treatment and the doctors declared all the four dead. We are investigating the matter,” police added.

The police have kept the bodies of all four at the mortuary of Badshah Khan Hospital, and their families have been informed, the official said.

However, the hospital management has tried to distance itself from the entire episode, and said that the agency which was engaged for sewer cleaning services was responsible for the incident as they failed to provide the workers with the requisite safety equipment to work in such hazardous places.

The police said the victims had been coming to the hospital every month to work.

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