Mumbai: Leaks took place in the LPG tank from the Kasturba hospital which was run by BMC near when Raasta at around 11:30 a.m.
on Saturday, which led to 77 people, including 12 Covid-19 patients, being shifted.
A fire official said the machine moving on earth in a possible place about the tank, causing leakage.
While it was true that the fire department and disaster management authorities reacted quickly to load damage and avoid disasters, hospitals that were so critical that had been in the main medical work center must be thoroughly investigated.
Inspections and examinations of tanks must be regular and strict, and the same as artificial exercises are carried out to increase readiness for various types of disasters, the only way to avoid tragedy really to do regular exercises for any possibility.
Brigade reaches the site, patients have shifted to other environments in the complex.
Supplementary City Commissioner Suresh Kakani said the disaster was avoided as a result of rapid action.
“Some staff at the hospital smell gas and told us.
As a precaution, 77 people, including 19 staff, evacuated from one of the buildings in the Kasturba complex,” he said.
LPG from the tank is used for cooking, heating and sterilization purposes.
Three fire extinguisher machines, three jumbo water tankers, and Hazmat vehicles handling hazardous materials were pressed into services by fire extinguisher.
The firefighters lit the area, people were evacuated – even from housing buildings side by side with the hospital place – and called HPCL to send special decanting vehicles to remove the remaining gas from the damaged tank.
The Hospital of Infectious Diseases Kasturba has a special significance in a pandemic because the first test for Covid-19 is carried out in the RT-PCR lab here, patients who are allegedly isolated here and the city’s first genome laboratory was inaugurated here at 4.
August hemant firefighters Purib said the 10-ton LPG tank was recharged a week ago.
Parab said it might be half empty when the leak happened.
“We immediately began to spray water to prevent the formation of a gas cloud,” said Puriab, added that water was sprayed to maintain low temperatures.
The Mayor of Kishori Pednekar, who visited a place along with the Cabinet Minister Aaditya Thackeray, said the fire of the fire brigade was diverting great disasters.
Kakani said Covid testing would not be affected.
“Saturday is half a day and Sunday is a holiday.
We will continue the work here on Monday, even though the site must be safe to restart electricity immediately after HPCL completes the decanting exercise,” Kakani said.
Mahesh Narvestar, Director, Disaster Management, said: “All evacuations can be done quickly when the patient is being transferred inside the hospital itself.
In such cases it is not needed an ambulance.
Also, there are no patients who are in critical and stable condition medically Even after being shifted.
We told the traffic police to make a green corridor for the HPCL tanker which was intended to remove the remaining LPG from the tank.
“(With input from Iyer Malathy)
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