Kolkata: Twenty people have died due to suffocation inside a massive fire that broke out on the AMRI Hospital in south Kolkata on Friday, West Bengal Health Minister Sudip Bandhyopadhyay told CNN-IBN. There were still no clarity about what caused the fire.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee rushed on the spot to size up your situation.
Reports said many bodies are actually moved to Kolkata SSKM hospital. The identification of bodies was on but sources said some of the bodies may not be identified as they were charred.
The angry relatives of the patients who died alleged how the hospital staff abandoned patients and didn't enable them to rush out. They said this resulted in suffocation, and therefore, deaths of the sufferers.
Nearly 25 fire tenders were spending so much time to evacuate all patients and staff. At the same time reports said the hearth has been doused, Fire Services Minister Javed Khan declared that there was still fire in the basement.
"The fire engulfed four floors of one of the buildings of the AMRI hospital in Dhakuria," a security officer manning the city police control room told IANS over phone.
The 161-bed hospital is found Dhakuria in Kolkata.
Firemen using ladders smashed glass inside facade to rescue patients trapped inside the ICU, ICCU, ITU and Critical Care units.
Fire Services Minister Javed Khan said the fire spread because of stocks of highly combustible material.
A healthcare facility also was without proper fire-fighting equipment, he stated.
Fire brigade sources declared firemen were trying to locate oxygen cylinders stocked about the floors, because fire could make them explode.
Thick smoke was hindering the operations, i was told that.
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