Agra: Fire breaks out at SNMC, no casualty
Agra: Fire broke out in the basement of the new surgery building of the Sarojani Naidu Medical College (SNMC) in Agra on Tuesday, authorities here said.
There was no casualty and the fire was brought under control in time by the fire department, they said.
"Some attendants threw a lit 'bidi' in the waste lying in the basement of the New Surgical block of the Sarojani Naidu Medical College at about 12.30 pm due to which a fire broke out in there," Prashant Gupta, Principal, Sarojani Naidu Medical College, said.
He said smoke entered the surgery building from the basement viaducts.
Patients were evacuated safely to the MCH wing and the Paediatric department, Gupta added.
Medical Dialogues team had recently reported about a massive fire that broke out at Bone and Joint (B&J) Hospital, Barzulla, after which the senior vice president of Peoples Conference( PC), Abdul GaniVakil urged the government to immediately take steps to make the hospitals fireproof.
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