Another more than 20 patients in different wards were evacuated, according to
Thane Police and Fire Brigade officials. Housing Minister Dr Jitendra Awhad who rushed to the spot said: The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained. The police and the local municipal corporation will give the details soon, he said.
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At least 8 fire-tenders were engaged in battling the blaze which was noticed around 3 am and finally brought under control by dawn. The deceased have been identified as: Yasmeen Z. Sayyed, 46, Nawab M Shaikh, 47, Halima B. Salmani, 70, and one Sonawane.
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Four patients died after a fire broke out at a private hospital near Thane in Maharashtra in the wee hours of Wednesday, a civic official said.
The patients died while being shifted to other hospitals after the blaze and not due to burns, the official said. They may have inhaled smoke after the fire, he added.
The incident comes five days after 15 coronavirus patients died in a blaze in the intensive care unit of a private hospital at Virar in the adjoining Palghar district. Wednesday s fire broke out at the Prime Criticare Hospital at Kausa-Mumbra locality at 3.40 am, the official said, adding that there were no coronavirus patients in the hospital.
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Four patients died after a fire broke out at a private hospital in Mumbra, Thane on Wednesday midnight. Around 20 patients were rescued and evacuated to nearby hospitals.
According to the regional disaster management, the fire broke out at 3:40am at Prime Criticare hospital on the first floor of Hasan Tower, at Shimla park on old Mumbai-Pune road, Kausa Mumbra.
Receiving news of hospital fires on a daily basis has upset the population in Maharashtra. As the Mumbra news spread widely on social media on social media today, many citizens took to Twitter to register their complaint against the bleak state of affair.
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