A 21-year-old girl, who had recovered from COVID-19 a month ago, died at Pune Jumbo COVID-19 facility in Nehru Nagar on Saturday two hours after she was discharged from a private hospital due to non-availability of an ICU bed. Even though the girl recovered from coronavirus, she started feeling uneasy five days ago. The girl had been suffering from a severe form of tuberculosis from a long time. 

As per reports, the girl was admitted to Dr DY Patil Hospital in Pimpri when her condition deteriorated five days ago. On Saturday, she was discharged from the hospital with the doctors saying that she should be shifted to another hospital as there was no ICU bed at the Dr DY Patil hospital as ICU beds are reserved for COVID-19 positive patients and the girl was COVID-19 negative. Another hospital at Moshi was contacted by doctors and ambulance was provided to shift the girl. 

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However, when the ambulance reached Moshi hospital, the girls relatives were told that no beds were available and they were directed to the Jumbo COVID-19 facility at Nehru Nagar. Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation Additional Municipal Commissioner Santosh Patil told a daily: The patient had TB and was brought to our facility in the morning with an extremely low oxygen saturation level of 15 per cent. Since her oxygen saturation level was low, she was admitted at the facility. However, she died one-and-a-half hours later.