NOIDA: Nearly 400 folks, amongst them 70 admitted patients, have been in Metro Hospital and Heart Institute on Thursday morning when a fireplace began within the high-dependency unit on the second one flooring.
It threw the five-storey development into chaos and brought on determined measures like breaking glass panes at the facade to let loose smoke and trapped folks as crammed stairwells bogged down evacuation.
Some folks gained minor injuries and some patients complained of breathing issues as the frenzy to get out of the development and a simultaneous energy shutdown, in step with witnesses, ended in a stampede-like situation close to the two stairwells however fortunately, everybody was once evacuated to protection.
The fire, which started around 12pm, was once put out around an hour later. It took almost two hours to evacuate all of the patients. The govt later ordered a magisterial probe as patients alleged the sprinklers did not work and leader fire officer (CFO) Arun Kumar Singh said the clinic had now not renewed its fire protection licence.
Most of the 70 patients evacuated have been taken to Metro Multispecialty Hospital in Sector 11 while 3 have been admitted to Kailash Hospital in Sector 27.
Kehar Singh, whose father was once admitted, said the fireplace broke out from a switchboard within the HDU where a clinic staffer had plugged in a kettle. The HDU is where cardiac patients are kept for post-operative observation and care. Vijaypal Singh (73), who was once admitted to the clinic on February 2, informed IdealNews the switchboard was once within the corner close to his mattress.
“I saw the fireplace that started abruptly. My daughter and son-in-law rushed to assist me get out. There have been no less than 10 patients within the unit who needed to be evacuated by our family members and clinic staff,” he said.
There seemed to be an initial delay in gauging the seriousness of the fireplace as HDU patients have been shifted to an ICU at the same flooring. But as the flames unfold to the HDU, cardiac OT, sterile processing department (CSSD) and the ICU, and thick smoke unfold inside the clinic, there was once panic in all of the development and folks at the 3rd, fourth and 5th flooring had additionally begun speeding down, amongst them attendants and clinic staff determined to get patients out to protection.
But this ended up jamming the two main stairwells as the group merged there and, with each energy supply and the turbines being shut down, led to a few folks stumbling over one some other and falling to the bottom.
Dayaram, who had passed through a middle surgical operation and was once admitted within the HDU, informed IdealNews he had failed to identify his son Kehar and was once picked up by an unknown person and brought to protection.
Kehar later said he could now not in finding his father within the chaos and was once looking around in panic earlier than he spotted Dayaram being performed.
Hospital staff and patients’ family members, within the period in-between, broke glass panes at the development’s facade on the second one, 3rd, fourth and the 5th flooring as the smoke started to choke folks. A affected person in clinic apparel was once noticed in a video being evacuated throughout the document room subsequent to HDU with some staffers status at the awning to rescue him. Ladders have been positioned along the facade to assist folks climb down.
District magistrate BN Singh, who ordered the inquiry, said, “The reasons for the fireplace can be investigated and we now have determined that a magisterial inquiry can be held so that the incident can function a case study for other hospitals.” The inquiry can be carried out by the town magistrate.
The clinic said all patients were shifted to some other wing in Sector 11. “The clinic has again began its routine work and shifted its patients to other wards,” it said in a remark.
It threw the five-storey development into chaos and brought on determined measures like breaking glass panes at the facade to let loose smoke and trapped folks as crammed stairwells bogged down evacuation.
Some folks gained minor injuries and some patients complained of breathing issues as the frenzy to get out of the development and a simultaneous energy shutdown, in step with witnesses, ended in a stampede-like situation close to the two stairwells however fortunately, everybody was once evacuated to protection.
The fire, which started around 12pm, was once put out around an hour later. It took almost two hours to evacuate all of the patients. The govt later ordered a magisterial probe as patients alleged the sprinklers did not work and leader fire officer (CFO) Arun Kumar Singh said the clinic had now not renewed its fire protection licence.
Most of the 70 patients evacuated have been taken to Metro Multispecialty Hospital in Sector 11 while 3 have been admitted to Kailash Hospital in Sector 27.
Kehar Singh, whose father was once admitted, said the fireplace broke out from a switchboard within the HDU where a clinic staffer had plugged in a kettle. The HDU is where cardiac patients are kept for post-operative observation and care. Vijaypal Singh (73), who was once admitted to the clinic on February 2, informed IdealNews the switchboard was once within the corner close to his mattress.
“I saw the fireplace that started abruptly. My daughter and son-in-law rushed to assist me get out. There have been no less than 10 patients within the unit who needed to be evacuated by our family members and clinic staff,” he said.
There seemed to be an initial delay in gauging the seriousness of the fireplace as HDU patients have been shifted to an ICU at the same flooring. But as the flames unfold to the HDU, cardiac OT, sterile processing department (CSSD) and the ICU, and thick smoke unfold inside the clinic, there was once panic in all of the development and folks at the 3rd, fourth and 5th flooring had additionally begun speeding down, amongst them attendants and clinic staff determined to get patients out to protection.
But this ended up jamming the two main stairwells as the group merged there and, with each energy supply and the turbines being shut down, led to a few folks stumbling over one some other and falling to the bottom.
Dayaram, who had passed through a middle surgical operation and was once admitted within the HDU, informed IdealNews he had failed to identify his son Kehar and was once picked up by an unknown person and brought to protection.
Kehar later said he could now not in finding his father within the chaos and was once looking around in panic earlier than he spotted Dayaram being performed.
Hospital staff and patients’ family members, within the period in-between, broke glass panes at the development’s facade on the second one, 3rd, fourth and the 5th flooring as the smoke started to choke folks. A affected person in clinic apparel was once noticed in a video being evacuated throughout the document room subsequent to HDU with some staffers status at the awning to rescue him. Ladders have been positioned along the facade to assist folks climb down.
District magistrate BN Singh, who ordered the inquiry, said, “The reasons for the fireplace can be investigated and we now have determined that a magisterial inquiry can be held so that the incident can function a case study for other hospitals.” The inquiry can be carried out by the town magistrate.
The clinic said all patients were shifted to some other wing in Sector 11. “The clinic has again began its routine work and shifted its patients to other wards,” it said in a remark.
Noida: Narrow escape for 70 patients, many more as fire & chaos break out at Metro hospital
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