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Image used for representational purpose only SURAT: The Welfare Hospital in Bharuch refurbished its unused building last year and started treating Covid patients there without any charges. The hospital administration made all arrangements for treatment, but they missed the most important factor that could have protected the 18 lives on Friday midnight – fire safety. The ground floor of the sprawling building, which had the capacity to admit 58 patients at a time, had just three fire extinguishers. The floor too was divided into different sections – ICU and general ward besides the service area. “There were no fire hydrants, water sprinklers or a smoke detector system which are must for a hospital. With such systems not installed, the hospital did not even apply for a no-objection certificate (NOC) to the Bharuch municipality,” said Dipak Makhijani, regional fire officer and in-charge deputy chief fire officer of Surat Municipal Corporation. ....
There were 57 Covid-19 patients, including 24 in two ICUs BHARUCH/SURAT: At least 18 people 16 coronavirus patients and two intern nurses perished in a massive fire that broke out in the intensive care unit (ICU) of a Covid-19 hospital run by a private trust in the industrial town of Bharuch after Friday midnight. While some of them got charred to death, others died of severe asphyxiation caused by smoke when the fire was sparked at around 12:40am in Welfare Hospital on Bharuch-Jambusar Road. Dipak Makhijani, regional fire officer, said the hospital did not have a fire NOC. “The first responders from the hospital said in their statements that the fire started from the ventilators, so we suspect that there could have been a spark in the machine which started the fire,” Makhijani told TOI. ....
Surat: At least 17 fire tenders were rushed to a textile processing unit Prerna Processors in Pandesara GIDC on Sunday night after a fire broke out the third floor of the unit. Two fire personnel sustained minor injuries during in fire fighting operation. They were shifted to a hospital for treatment. However, no casualty was reported in the fire incident. Initially three fire tenders were rushed to the factory. But as the fire continued to spread in other parts of the building, more fire tenders were pushed into service. “Yarn is stored in the building where the fire had started. We have started cooling down and our teams have succeeded in entering the building,” said Dipak Makhijani, in-charge chief fire officer, SFES. Fire teams faced a challenge in controlling the fire as they could not find any space to sprinkle water on the burning yarn inside the building. Due to this the fire spread in other portion of the building. tnn ....