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A fire broke out at a Covid hospital in Gujarat s Bharuch on Saturday, leaving 16 dead. (Photo: India Today)
A fire broke out at Bharuch Welfare Hospital at 1 am on Saturday. According to district collector Dr Modhya, at least 16 Covid-19 patients lost their lives in the incident.
The patients died due to the fire and resultant smoke, Bharuch Superintendent of Police Rajendrasinh Chudasama said.
A total of around 70 patients were admitted at the four-storeyed hospital, of which 24 were in the intensive care unit.
All the survivors, rescued by locals and firefighters, have now been shifted to nearby hospitals.
At least eighteen persons including 16 COVID-19 patients died in a fire at a hospital at Bharuch in Gujarat in the early hours of Saturday, officials said. The state government said a judicial inquiry will be conducted into the fire that destroyed the Intensive Care Unit of Patel Welfare Hospital, run by a charitable trust. Sixteen coronavirus patients and two nursing staff were either charred to death or died due to suffocation inside a COVID-19 unit, Superintendent of Police Rajendrasinh Chudasama said. As many as 50 patients were undergoing treatment at the COVID-19 facility on the ground floor when fire broke out in the ICU around 1 am, probably because of short circuit, said a hospital official.