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MUMBAI: The death toll in the ESIC Hospital fire climbed to nine on Wednesday after an 80-year-old woman passed away. The deceased was shifted from ESIC to SevenHills Hospital in Marol with ventilatory support, the family said.Doctors at SevenHills said that she also had cardiac complications and kidney problems. At the Marol hospital, more than five fire victims are in the ICU. Sheela Morvekar was a stroke patient and was already on ventilator at the ESIC Hospital in MIDC since December 2.Her son-in-law Dilip Lad said that she had become paralytic following the stroke.“At ESIC, she was initially treated in the ICU. Morvekar’s body was sent to the Cooper Hospital for an autopsy..