8 Patients burnt alive, several injured as massive fire breaks out at private Hospital in Jabalpur

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Jabalpur, Aug 01, 2022: At least eight people including four patients, were killed after a massive fire broke out at a private hospital in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur city on Monday.  Five people injured in the incident have been shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment.

 

Jabalpur Collector Dr Ilayaraja T said four patients, a caregiver and three staffers of the facility, housed in a ground plus three-storey building, died in the fire which has been put out, news agency PTI reported.

Of the five injured, he said, two were in critical condition and admitted to the ICU of the government medical college in Jabalpur. He said evacuation of patients and other people from the 30-bed hospital was over and no one was trapped in the building. The Collector said there were 20 to 25 people in the hospital when the blaze started.

 

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Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan announced an ex-gratia of Rs 5 lakhs each for the next of kin who lost their lives in the fire tragedy.

“This is a very unfortunate incident, I am constantly in touch with the officials. The fire has been brought under control. The injured people have been sent to hospitals for treatment. Instructions have been given to carry out an investigation for the same," he said.

The fire erupted at New Life Multi-speciality Hospital near Damoh Naka under the Gohalpur police station area of Jabalpur around 2.30 pm, Superintendent of Police (SP) Siddharth Bahuguna said, according to news agency PTI.

Prima facie, it appears a short circuit caused the blaze, he said.

Chief Superintendent of Police Jabalpur Akhilesh Gaur said that all the people trapped inside the hospital have been rescued.

“Our teams immediately arrived at the site of the fire. We have completed the search operation and no one is trapped inside. The first floor has been damaged completely," said Sanjiv Kumar Gupta, an NDRF official.