Major fireplace breaks out at personal hospital in Cuttack

By Express News Service
CUTTACK: A serious fireplace broke out at a non-public hospital close to Kanika sq. in Tulsipur space right here on Monday afternoon triggering panic amongst sufferers, attendants and employees of the power.

There has been happily no lack of life nor any damage to the sufferers present process remedy within the hospital.  The fireplace erupted within the administrative block on the highest flooring of the five-storied Sun Hospital at about 12.30 pm. Soon, thick plumes of smoke engulfed your entire hospital.  

On being knowledgeable, fireplace service personnel rushed to the spot and began evacuating sufferers with the assistance of hospital employees. Of the eight sufferers, three have been discharged whereas the remainder have been shifted to a close-by hospital.

“We immediately broke the window panes to release the smoke for facilitating the evacuation process,” stated assistant fireplace security officer Abani Kumar Swain.

Over 30 personnel of seven fireplace combating groups have been pressed into the service for evacuation of sufferers and to douse the fireplace.

Firefighters used fashionable gear together with hydraulic platform-based ladder to succeed in as much as the highest flooring of the hospital. It took round three hours to carry the fireplace underneath management.  

While hospital data, furnishings and fixtures have been gutted, the rationale of fireside is but to be ascertained. The hospital lacks fireplace security certificates.

However, we had carried out a hearth security mock drill on the hospital premises lately which helped the employees handle the mishap successfully,” stated Swain. 

Collector Bhabani Shankar Chayani stated all of the sufferers present process remedy on the hospital have been safely evacuated.

A probe can even be carried out whether or not the hospital adopted the fireplace security norms or not, he stated and added that vital motion could be initiated basing on the report.  The hospital authorities, nonetheless, couldn’t be contacted to touch upon the mishap.