Reports say that 14 ICU patients at the MIOT hospital have died because there was no power in the hospitals and neither were there oxygen cylinders.

The 14 patients were on ventilator when they passed away early in the morning. The bodies have been taken to a government hospital.


The MIOT hospital, which is located near Guindy on the banks of Adyar river, was flooded due to the rains. 


J Radhakrishnan, state health secretary said all of whom who died at the MIOT hospital were "highly critical'.


All the other patients from MIOT have been evacuated. Some 200 were discharged and another 300 moved to various other hospitals.

The dead bodies were taken to Royapettah government hospital in the city.


Chennai city and its suburbs experienced a welcome break from the unpredented rains of the last 100 years, that resulted in a sharp fall in the discharge of waters from Chembarapakkam, Pondi and Puzhal lakes leading to reduction in the water levels of the two rivers that criss-cross the city.


Pic: People wade through a waterlogged road following heavy rains in Chennai on Wednesday.