Mumbai: Defective electric circuit caused Bhandup mall hospital fire
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The investigation carried by the fire brigade department into the March 25, fire at Sunrise Hospital at Bhandup s Dreams Mall which killed 11 COVID-19 patients has revealed towards major lapses in the fire fighting system of the mall and irregularities inside the premises. The report has stated that fire originated at shop number 140 on the upper ground of the mall which caused due to defective electric circuit, stated in the report.
In the report the Deputy Chief Fire Officer mentioned that as the fixed fire fighting system of the mall was not in a working condition, the fire spread quickly. The report also pointed towards various irregularities in the mall and also mentioned that the occupants of the premises had made alterations and constructed lofts as well as blocked the light and ventilation of the building at various places.
Eleven patients had died in the fire at Sunrise Hospital on March 25
MUMBAI: It has been more than a month since the FIR was filed in the fatal Sunrise Hospital fire at Bhandup, but there have been no arrests yet, the families of the victims complained to director general of police (DGP) Sanjay Pandey on Monday.
Pandey has asked the Mumbai police commissioner to carry out a thorough probe into the incident.
On March 25, a major fire broke out in Dreams Mall and spread to Sunrise Hospital, a dedicated Covid facility, located on the third floor. Eleven bodies were found and over 70 patients rescued. Two days later, Bhandup police booked six people Rakesh Wadhwan, Sarang Wadhwan and Deepak Shirke of HDIL that owns the mall, and Amitsingh Trehan, Nikhita Trehan and Sweety Jain of Privilege Healthcare Services that managed Sunrise Hospital under IPC 304 for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Why no arrests yet in Sunrise hospital fire, victims’ kin ask DGP
ByChaitanya MarpakwarChaitanya Marpakwar / Updated: May 4, 2021, 15:41 IST
(This story was first published in TOI on May 4, 2021)
Mumbai: It has been more than a month since the FIR was filed in the fatal
Sunrise Hospital fire at Bhandup, but there have been no arrests yet, the families of the victims complained to director general of police (DGP) Sanjay Pandey on Monday.
Pandey has asked the
On March 25, a major fire broke out in Dreams Mall and spread to Sunrise Hospital, a dedicated Covid facility, located on the third floor. Eleven bodies were found and over 70 patients rescued. Two days later, Bhandup police booked six people Rakesh Wadhwan, Sarang Wadhwan and Deepak Shirke of HDIL that owns the mall, and Amitsingh Trehan,
BMC will not extend license of Bhandup s Sunrise hospital
Mirror Online / Updated: Apr 1, 2021, 11:58 IST
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (
BMC) has decided to not extend the license of
Sunrise hospital in
Bhandup, where 11 lives were lost due to a blaze on March 25.
In May 2020, the BMC had given a provisional occupation certificate (OC) to the hospital as a special case in view of the exceptional circumstances that were created in the city due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The hospital was given temporary permission to function as a COVID hospital and the license was to expire on March 31, 2021.
However, post the massive fire that broke out in the mall, and gradually ascended to the hospital housed on its third floor, BMC additional commissioner Suresh Kakani has made it clear that the hospital will not be allowed to function any further. We are not going to extend the permission for now. We are very clear that the hospital should get permanent OC and fire NOC
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