20191021 Infant dies, five injured Hyderabad hospital fire
India Oct 21 2019 “Building” “Hospitals”
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Infant dies, five injured Hyderabad hospital fire
Updated: 2019–10–21
HYDERABAD: An infant died while five others were injured in a fire at a private hospital in Hyderabad early on Monday.
The fire broke out due to a short circuit in the pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Shine Children’s Hospital between 2.30am and 3am.
Police shifted the injured to other hospitals in the city for treatment.
Parents were left clueless about the whereabouts of their children and were making rounds of nearby hospitals as well as the Osmania hospital mortuary.
The tormented parents, many of whom were present in the hospital at the time of the incident, said that they were not allowed to see the babies and there were no doctors at the time of the incident barring three staff who didn’t help them to see their children.
As many as 43 infants were present in the pediatric ICU at the time of incident.
While parents and relatives had reached the hospital early morning, the hospital authorities reportedly pulled the shutters down and fled from the spot following which police took over the spot and shifted the patients.
Some of the patients were shifted to the Osmania General Hospital (OGH).
Web Source: The times of India