Fire breaks out at Betul District Hospital

Betul: A fire broke out at a storeroom in the Betul District Hospital in Madhya Pradesh on Sunday morning, but the hospital staff contained the blaze within minutes and averted a major accident, officials said.

As a precautionary measure, patients from the female and paediatric wards were shifted to safety, they said.

The blaze started at 9.20 am in the storeroom in the kitchen area of the hospital due to a short-circuit, and the staffers brought it under control in about 10 minutes and extinguished it, the officials said, news agency PTI reported.

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The situation did not escalate due to the swift response of the hospital administration, they added.

Hospital civil surgeon and in-charge Dr Rupesh Padmakar and Resident Medical Officer (RMO) Dr Ranu Verma reached the site immediately.

Dr Padmakar stated that an electrician and his assistant switched off the power supply without delay and used extinguishers to douse the flames.

Patients from the female ward and the paediatric ward were shifted to safer areas as a precaution. The hospital staff later started the process of moving them back to their respective wards, the officials said.

Betul in-charge Collector Akshat Jain, Additional Collector Vandana Jat, Chief Medical and Health Officer Dr Manoj Hurmade, and the state power distribution company staff inspected the site and issued necessary instructions, reports PTI.

Medical Dialogues had earlier reported that eight patients were killed and five remain critical after a massive fire broke out in the ICU of the Trauma Centre at Sawai Mansingh (SMS) Hospital in Jaipur. In response, the Rajasthan government has ordered a probe into the incident, while relatives of the deceased patients have alleged negligence and a lack of firefighting equipment.

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