Obstacles should be removed and improvements should be made in the 24 black spots identified as accident zones, Raipur Collector Dr Sarveshwar Narendra Bhure said on Sunday.
He was holding a meeting of the Raipur District Road Safety Committee held in the Collectorate.
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The protesters, led by Congress MLA Dhanendra Sahu, former Rajya Sabha member Chhaya Verma and Raipur district party unit (urban) president Girish Dubey, gathered outside the ED office building in Pachpedi Naka area on Tuesday and staged a sit-in protest
A file photo of evacuated patients after a fire broke out at a Covid ward in a city-based hospital on April 17
RAIPUR: Two doctors were arrested on Tuesday, following death of five Covid patients after a major fire broke out at a Raipur hospital on April 17.
Police said that during investigation they found several discrepancies related to fire safety at the hospital.
The state government paid Rs 4 lakh relief compensation to the kin of the deceased.
The incident took place on April 17 in the Covid ward of a private hospital located at Pachpedi Naka in Raipur. Patients were rushed out and shifted to other hospitals while five of them couldn t be carried outside and they died.
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While one patient was burnt alive, four others died of suffocation due to the fire at a private hospital in Raipur on Saturday. PTI Outlook Web Bureau 2021-04-18T17:19:40+05:30 Chhattisgarh Covid Ward Fire Toll 5, Govt Orders Probe outlookindia.com 2021-04-18T21:34:02+05:30
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Authorities have ordered an investivation into a fire which killed five coronavirus patients in the Covid ward of a private hospital in Chhattisgarh s capital city Raipur on Saturday.
Dr S Bharathi Dasan, Raipur s Collector, has ordered an investigation into the incident, and officials have been instructed to conduct safety check at all the coronavirus hospitals in the city.