Kanyakumari: 63 COVID patients were shifted to other wards after a fire broke out in the main block of the state. Kanyakumari Government Medical College Hospital on Wednesday night.
The fire that started at 7.50 pm was brought under control in about 10 minutes by the fire tenders deployed for the oxygen plant in the hospital. three more firefighters nagercoil and Colachel The fire stations were diverted to the hospital but by 7.59 p.m. the first tender and fire brigade personnel brought the fire under control.
Patients were overwhelmed when smoke came out of a room on the ground floor.
district fire officer b sarvanbabu told TOI that the main block is a ground plus four-storey structure. “The fire broke out in a room where waste items like empty cardboard boxes, damaged cots and others were stored improperly and under unsafe conditions. The cause of the fire is being investigated,” he said.
There were 150 patients in the Kovid-19 ward and the general ward. In the initial examination, it was found that the patients did not have difficulty in breathing. However, as a precautionary measure, the Covid-19 patients were shifted to other vacant wards.
Police and fire and rescue service personnel were investigating the cause of the fire. Staff members and others present at the time of the fire are also being questioned by the hospital.
The fire that started at 7.50 pm was brought under control in about 10 minutes by the fire tenders deployed for the oxygen plant in the hospital. three more firefighters nagercoil and Colachel The fire stations were diverted to the hospital but by 7.59 p.m. the first tender and fire brigade personnel brought the fire under control.
Patients were overwhelmed when smoke came out of a room on the ground floor.
district fire officer b sarvanbabu told TOI that the main block is a ground plus four-storey structure. “The fire broke out in a room where waste items like empty cardboard boxes, damaged cots and others were stored improperly and under unsafe conditions. The cause of the fire is being investigated,” he said.
There were 150 patients in the Kovid-19 ward and the general ward. In the initial examination, it was found that the patients did not have difficulty in breathing. However, as a precautionary measure, the Covid-19 patients were shifted to other vacant wards.
Police and fire and rescue service personnel were investigating the cause of the fire. Staff members and others present at the time of the fire are also being questioned by the hospital.
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