New Delhi: At least 11 Coronavirus patients, most senior citizens, killed and several others were injured after a large fire broke out in the ICU of the civilian civil hospital in Ahmednagar Maharashtra on Saturday.
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Read Alsomaharashtra: 11 Covid-19 patients died, seven injured in a fire in Ahmednagar ICU civil hospital; Probe ordered as many as 11 Covid-19 patients died and seven others were injured after a fire broke out in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) from Ahmednagar’s civil hospital on Saturday.
Minister of Maharashtra Minister Uddhav Thackeray has ordered an investigation into the fire incident.
The main minister also stated that 17 patients in the ward, where 15 were on the support of ventilators or oxygen, which made rescue operations more complicated.
Rescue personnel remember the panic scene and chaos when they entered the ward, with patients with despair crying for help when the fire swallowed the unit.
“Saving them is a priority.
But because of their critical conditions, to eliminate oxygen support and bring them out is a difficult decision,” said an official.
Firefighters tried to extinguish the fire in the ICU.
(Pti) “After the discussion, we decided to get it out and then put them back on oxygen or other support systems,” he added.
There is smoke everywhere, and a senior fire department official said that instead of the flame, smoke might have been proven to be more deadly.
Most of them died aged between 65 and 83, according to hospital officials.
The probe of Minister of Mahitashtra Leader Uddhav Thackeray has ordered an investigation into the fire incident.
The main minister also expressed condolences for the incident.
Health Minister Maharashtra Rajesh Tope has announced a large number of RS 5 Lakh each for their relatives who were killed in fire accidents.
The health department’s sources say that there are two ICU wings in Ahmednagar’s civil hospital.
One on the first floor and the second on the ground floor, where the fire broke.
Audit API has been carried out in the hospital, but all the necessary systems are not there for lack of funds, a claimed official.
After a recent fire audit, the hospital was asked to install an effective fire extinguisher system including the pipeline and sprinkler system, Shankar for example, the Head of the Ahmednagar Municipal Corporation Fire Extinguisher, said.
But the work was incomplete because of the “desire of funds”, even though the hospital had a fire extinguisher, he said.
(With input from PTI)