Eight corona patients died in a fire in the ICU ward of Special COVID Shrey Hospital located in the poshest Navarangpura area in the Ahmedabad at around 3 pm on Thursday. According to the Gujarat ACP LB Jala for questioning, Navarangpura police have taken the hospital trustee Bharat Mahant and a ward boy into custody.
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani immediately ordered a high-level inquiry into the incident, announced a grant of Rs four lakh each to the family of the dead and Rs 50,000 to the injured.
It is alleged that there were no fire safety arrangements at Shrey Hospital. Around 3:00 am on Thursday, a sudden fire broke out in the ICU ward of the hospital, in which 5 men and three women died due to scorching. Shrey Hospital is a 50-bed Kovid-19 hospital.
There is also the fact that the fire brigade does not have any objection certificate of the fire brigade near the hospital. About 40 to 45 patients were admitted here during the incident. All these coronas were infected and have been shifted to Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Hospital, run by the Municipal Corporation.
IAS Dr Rajeev Gupta, Special Officer of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, said that it is too early to say anything about the incident of Shrey Hospital but so far 350 Corona infected diseases have been treated by this hospital. The government has given 3 days to investigate the incident. For reasons of the incident, it is too early to say anything on the other subject.
2 lakh will be given from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) to the families of those who lost their lives in the hospital fire in Ahmedabad. 50,000 will be given to each of those injured due to fire in the hospital.
Chief Minister Vijay Rupani has also given instructions to Dr. Jayanthi Ravi, Principal Secretary, Health Department to take special care of these patients and make special arrangements for health facilities and services. About 8 vehicles and 10 ambulances of the Fire Department were present on the spot late night and remained in relief and rescue operations. All the bodies have been sent for post-mortem to the government hospital.
Due to not giving the information of the patients to the family, there was a dispute between the family of the patients and the hospital management. The rest of the patients have been shifted to SVP Hospital. The cause of the fire is being described as a short circuit. Expressing grief over the incident, Chief Minister Vijay Rupani handed over the inquiry to Additional Chief Secretary of Home Department Sangeeta Singh, Additional Chief Secretary of Urban Development Department Mukesh Kumar. The investigation report will be delivered to the government in three days.
JCP Rajendra Asari of Ahmedabad Sector 1 said that eight people have died in the hospital under fire. Other patients have been shifted to a safer place. The matter will be thoroughly investigated.
Around 40 other patients hospitalized were shifted to SVP Hospital operated by Civic Body after a horrific fire. It is being told that a short circuit in the ICU department of the hospital caught fire and slowly spread.
News Source: TimesOfIndia
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