8 corona patients killed in fire at Shreya Hospital in Navrangpura

  • | Thursday | 6th August, 2020

A fire broke out in the ICU on the top floor of the Covid-19 designated four-storey Shreya Hospital in Navrangpura area of ??the city around 3:30 pm last night. The fire killed eight patients, including five Corona patients and three women. While another 41 patients have been shifted to SVP Hospital.

A fire broke out in the ICU on the top floor of the Covid-19 designated four-storey Shreya Hospital in Navrangpura area of ??the city around 3:30 pm last night. The fire killed eight patients, including five Corona patients and three women. While another 41 patients have been shifted to SVP Hospital. The entire hospital had 57 patients with Covid, including 10 patients in the ICU. It is also believed that the fire was caused by a short circuit. However, the fire department is investigating. Currently, there is an atmosphere of friction between the family and the police outside the hospital. When the whole hospital is emptied the seal is killed. Whether the hospital received NOC of fire is also a matter of investigation. Health Secretary Jayanti Ravi also reached the spot. "The whole incident will be investigated impartially and who is behind the tragedy will also be investigated," he said.

Outside the Shreya Hospital, the leaders started arriving at the hospital after the tragedy at the BJP`s city president`s besieged Shreya Hospital. In which BJP city president Jagdish Panchal also arrived. Aam Aadmi Party workers were also present at the time. He surrounded and pushed Jagdish Panchal. Instead of going to the hospital, Jagdish Panchal got angry and left in his car.

Late at night, 35 firefighters who came in contact with the patient were self-quarantined.
At 3:30 in the morning, the fire department received a call about the fire. About 35 firefighters and 18 vehicles, including Additional Chief Fire Officer Rajesh Bhatt, rushed to the spot. All of these goons are currently self-quarantined. "We came in direct contact with the patient," the fire department said. While 41 patients from the hospital have been shifted to SVP hospital so far. Currently the entire credit hospital has been vacated.

Sector-1 JCP RV Asari of Sector-1 said that the case of fire in the hospital has now been registered with the AD. The matter will be investigated by the police. In any case, the process of filing an offense will be carried out based on the facts. When the hospital was negligent it will be thoroughly investigated. We will investigate whether information has been received from the hospital so far and the families of the deceased have not been responded to.

Burning Timeline: What happened when the deadline at
3:10 pm, a fire, call the fire incident
at 3:20 pm Fire brigade vehicles reached the spot 15
at 3:30 pm, all patients under utaraya using the fire
was under control at 4:00 pm, the fire
4:20 AM Bhavin Solanki including officers arrived at the hospital
at 4:25 pm, a fire brigade confirmed the death of 8 people
at 4:45 pm and the fire brigade ambulance SVP 108 patients admitted to the hospital
at 7:30 am qualified to answer patients` relatives were not in a panic
at 8:00 pm Mayor electrical Patel arrived at the hospital
at 8:15 Bodies sent for postmortem at
8:30 am Health Secretary Jayanti Ravi arrives
at the hospital at 9:00 am Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweets and sends condolences over the incident
At 9:17 a.m., Home Minister Amit Shah tweeted

The hospital was on fire at midnight to evacuate patients from the hospital. The accident killed 8 patients while the fire department team played a key role in the operation to move another 25 patients safely to another hospital. As soon as the accident was reported, more than 15 fire brigade vehicles reached the spot at midnight. A police team has been at the spot since late last night.

The outcry of the patients` relatives outside the credit hospital is credited to the 50-bed Kovid-19 hospital. Where more than 40 corona patients were being treated. Work has been started to take the bodies of the patients who died in the accident to the PM. While other patients have been shifted to SVP Hospital. Outrage is being seen outside the hospital with allegations of not providing patient information to family members.


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