A patient is rescued from Vijay Vallabh Hospital in Virar
MUMBAI: Fifteen Covid-19 patients, including six women, were charred to death after a fire broke out in the secondfloor intensive care unit (ICU) of the 90-bed Vijay Vallabh hospital in Virar early on Friday. Two other ICU patients who were rescued are serious, doctor said. The tragedy came just two days after 22 Covid patients died in a Nashik hospital after an oxygen tank leak.
The management of the Virar hospital, doctors and staff were booked by the Arnala coastal police on Friday evening for culpable homicide not amounting to murder under the non-bailable Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code. Other IPC sections applied are 337, 338 (causing hurt by act so rash or negligent as to endanger life) and 34 (common intention), DCP of Mira-Bhayander Vasai -Virar zone 2 Sanjay Patil said. No arrests had been made till the time of going to press.
COVID-hospital fire kills 13
ICU ward at
Palghar pvt facility goes up in flames after short circuit; compensation announced
PALGHAR At least 13 patients including six women perished in a major fire that broke out in a private
COVID hospital in Virar of Palghar district of
Maharashtra early on Friday, officials said.
President R N Kovind, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi, Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari, Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, Union Home Minister Amit Shah,
Leader of Opposition (Assembly) Devendra Fadnavis and other leaders have expressed grief over the tragedy.
The conflagration was noticed around 3.15 am in the ICU ward located on the second floor of the fourstoreyed Vijay Vallabh hospital at Tirupati Nagar in Virar. The
Death toll rises to 15 in Virar hospital fire
FPJ
The death toll in the COVID care hospital fire incident in Maharashtra s Palghar district reached 15, informed Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation on Friday.
A case has been registered under IPC Section 304, 337, 338 and 34 at Arnala Police Station, against staff, management, and a doctor in the hospital fire incident, said DCP Sanjay Patil.
On Friday, a fire broke out at an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Vijay Vallabh COVID care hospital in the Virar area of Maharashtra s Palghar district.
The incident took place around 3.30 am on the second floor of the facility, the Corona Control Room, Vasai Virar Municipal Corporation said.
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India: 13 Covid patients die in hospital fire in Maharashtra
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The fire broke out in the ICU of the hospital.
At least thirteen Covid-19 patients died after a fire broke out in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Virar, an extended Mumbai suburb, early on Friday.
According to the police, the fire broke out at the Vijay Vallabh hospital, which is treating Covid patients. Sources cited a short-circuit in the air-conditioning unit as the cause of the fire.
#UPDATE 13 people have died so far in fire at COVID hospital in Virar, in Vasai Virar municipal limits, Palghar district