20230609 20 newborns rescued after fire breaks out at hospital in west Delhi’s Janakpuri
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20 newborns rescued after fire breaks out at hospital in west Delhi’s Janakpuri
Updated: 2023-06-09
NEW DELHI: Twenty newborns were rescued by the Delhi Fire Service (DFS) after a fire broke out at a hospital in west Delhi’s Janakpuri, on Friday.
The incident took place in the room of a Newborn Child Hospital in Vaishali Colony, said police.
The fire was brought under control at 2.25am.
“We received a call at 1.35am that a fire broke out at a hospital. We sent four fire tenders first. They told us that there are 20 newborns there and they are facing difficulty as the lane is narrow. We sent about four more fire tenders. We reached there on time and the fire was extinguished,” reported news agency ANI quoting Atul Garg, director, Delhi Fire Service.
He added that all the children were sent to different hospitals after being rescued.
Stating that nobody was injured in the incident, Garg said that the hospital was just one floor and they didn’t have a fire NOC.
Out of the 20 newborns, 13 were shifted to Arya Hospital, two to the Dwarka More Newborn Child Hospital, two to JK Hospital Janakpuri. Three newborn babies were discharged from the Newborn child hospital in Vaishali
However, some furniture items in the basement of the hospital had caught fire.
Web Source: The Times of India