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.