Soon after, he saw smoke spreading out from the ICU bed.
The sudden and awful incident forced him to evacuate the ICU and shift his ailing brother Abdullah Al Mahmud, 48, a critical Covid-19 patient, like attendants of 13 other ICU patients there.
Three of those ICU patients, including Bulbul s brother, died after they were relocated.
Two other dead were identified as Engineer Kazi Golam Mostafa, 66, of Chandpur, and Kishore Chandra Roy, 70, of Tangail.
Some of the 14 critical patients were taken to a nearby coronary care unit (CCU) on the same floor of the 10-storey building whereas some were shifted to other wards or hospitals.
Fire breaks out at ICU unit in DMCH: 3 patients die
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shifted from Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Dhaka Medical College Hospital
(DMCH) during a fire incident this morning.
DMCH Director Brig Gen Nazmul Haque said the fire broke out at the ICU
on the third floor of DMCH’s new building.
All the patients were transferred from the ICU after the fire broke out.
But the three patients who were on life support died while undergoing
treatment at the CCU later, the DMCH director said.
The fire broke out around 8:10am and caused dense smoke inside the ICU.
Three units of firefighters rushed to the spot and doused the blaze around
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Published: 18 Mar 2021 01:22 AM BdST
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They alleged that the patients ‘suffocated to death due to the smoke as they were not rushed out’ after fire broke out in the ICU.
2021-03-17 06:35:34 GMT2021-03-17 14:35:34(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
DHAKA, March 17 (Xinhua) A fire broke out Wednesday morning at an intensive care unit treating COVID-19 patients in a major hospital in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, leaving three patients dead, a senior official said.
Brigadier General Md Nazmul Haque, director of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, told Xinhua that 14 patients were in the unit when a high pressure oxygen device exploded at around 8:00 a.m. local time Wednesday.
Other than the fatalities, no others were injured in the fire, he mentioned.
All the ICU patients were transferred to another ICU unit of the hospital, he added.