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Rajkot: The Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) on Monday started a control room to coordinate the movement of bodies of patients who have died in various Covid hospitals across the city. The control room will inform when to send the bodies to the crematoriums which have been witnessing a heavy rush due to an increase in the number of deaths in Covid hospitals over the past few weeks.
According to sources, at Ramnath Para crematorium, on Sunday, while four bodies were being cremated, three had to be kept waiting outside as there was no space to cremate them.
This crematorium is the nearest to Rajkot Civil Hospital and the biggest in the city. It has two electric furnaces which are reserved for cremation as per Covid protocol. However, one of the two furnaces is out of order and the second is also in need of maintenance. So it takes nearly two hours for a body to be cremated, added sources.
RMC issued notices to more than 300 hospitals asking them to adhere to fire safety norms.
RAJKOT: The office bearers of Rajkot branch of Indian Medical Association (IMA) on Saturday asked the civic body officials to discuss with them before taking any coercive steps while implementing the town planning and fire safety rules.
It has asked the RMC to act ‘sympathetically’ in case of nursing homes. It has also warned the Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) of locking up smaller hospitals in the city if the the civic body starts sealing up of such hospitals over non-compliance of fire safety rules.
Following the fire incident in Uday Shivanand hospital where six patients lost their lives, the RMC issued notices to more than 300 hospitals asking them to adhere to fire safety norms within a stipulated period.
Rajot: Rajkot Municipal Corporation (RMC) asked nearly 300 hospitals not to admit new patients till they get fire no objection certificates (NOC). These hospitals were earlier served notices ordering them to fulfil necessary requirements and obtain NOC.
The hospitals have been warned that if they fail to obtain NOC in the next 15 days, they will be sealed as per the rules. The fire department had examined all the hospitals, high-rise buildings and commercial buildings after the tragedy at Uday Shivanand Hospital where six people lost their lives.
RMC said in a statement that legal action will be taken against hospitals if they failed to obtain NOC despite notices by the fire department. Admission of new patients is prohibited at these hospitals. The hospitals are required to obtain NOC till the time they discharge the existing patients, otherwise these hospitals will be sealed.