NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission on Friday issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh govt over a fire at a sanatorium in Noida which used to be functioning "without a fire licence".
The fire had broken out on the Metro Hospitals and Heart Institute on Thursday, trapping a number of other folks inside the multi-storeyed construction but no casualty used to be reported.
"The NHRC has taken suo motu cognisance of media reports about a massive fire which broke out in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Metro Hospitals and Heart Institute in Sector-12, Noida, Gautam Budh Nagar," it mentioned in a observation.
Reportedly, 66 sufferers had been admitted in the sanatorium out of which 16 had been in the ICU, when the fire broke out, the NHRC mentioned.
No one used to be critically injured and the entire sufferers had been safely evacuated. Most of them had been transferred to the Sector-11 branch of the sanatorium, which is about 500 metres away, it added.
The fee has issued the attention to the executive secretary, in the hunt for an in depth report in six weeks.
Describing the incident as grave, the NHRC has noticed that a number of identical incidents have occurred up to now, in different parts of the rustic, the place many human lives had been lost.
"Only the critically-ill sufferers are kept in the ICU of the hospitals. In case of a fireplace breaks out in this kind of facility, there are extra chances of loss of human lives as the sufferers are not ready to move at their own
"It becomes strict accountability of the sanatorium management to take utmost care that the suitable to life of the sufferers, admitted in the sanatorium, isn't violated," it added.
The sanatorium in Sector-12 used to be functioning with no fire licence that expired over five months in the past, officers mentioned Thursday.
The fire had broken out on the Metro Hospitals and Heart Institute on Thursday, trapping a number of other folks inside the multi-storeyed construction but no casualty used to be reported.
"The NHRC has taken suo motu cognisance of media reports about a massive fire which broke out in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the Metro Hospitals and Heart Institute in Sector-12, Noida, Gautam Budh Nagar," it mentioned in a observation.
Reportedly, 66 sufferers had been admitted in the sanatorium out of which 16 had been in the ICU, when the fire broke out, the NHRC mentioned.
No one used to be critically injured and the entire sufferers had been safely evacuated. Most of them had been transferred to the Sector-11 branch of the sanatorium, which is about 500 metres away, it added.
The fee has issued the attention to the executive secretary, in the hunt for an in depth report in six weeks.
Describing the incident as grave, the NHRC has noticed that a number of identical incidents have occurred up to now, in different parts of the rustic, the place many human lives had been lost.
"Only the critically-ill sufferers are kept in the ICU of the hospitals. In case of a fireplace breaks out in this kind of facility, there are extra chances of loss of human lives as the sufferers are not ready to move at their own
"It becomes strict accountability of the sanatorium management to take utmost care that the suitable to life of the sufferers, admitted in the sanatorium, isn't violated," it added.
The sanatorium in Sector-12 used to be functioning with no fire licence that expired over five months in the past, officers mentioned Thursday.
NHRC notice to UP govt over fire at Noida hosp
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