The incident exposes
"faulty" fire management system
7/7/2015
Nitesh Sangral
Early Times Report
Jammu, July 6: Panic
gripped the premier Super Speciality Hospital here Monday evening following
mysterious fire which broke out in CT Scan unit, gutting property worth lakhs
and exposing the "faulty" fire management system of the health institute.
Short circuit was believed
to be cause of the fire which was brought under control by the fire tenders
that were pressed into service. This is the second incident of fire in the
hospital and it seems as if the administration of hospital and higher ups have
not learnt lesson from the first incident that occurred on November 9, 2014.
The incident took place
around 6:30 pm when fire broke in CT scan unit on first floor of the hospital
due to short circuit but the fire-fighting systems, which were installed after
spending crores of rupees, proved non- functional. Moreover, patients and
attendants, who were admitted in the hospital, were seen running from different
wards to save themselves. The smoke also gradually spread to the entire
hospital. Later, two tenders of Fire Bridge came and controlled the flames.
Talking to Early Times,
Superintend of Hospital, Dr Romesh Gupta said the patients were saved and a few
patients were shifted to GMCH. He said all Heads of Department (HoDs) had been
called and they would monitor the condition of patients. When asked why the
fire-fighting system did not work, he refused to comment.
Sources in the hospital
raised serious questions on the quality of fire extinguishers and asked for
taking the company, which had supplied them, to task.
The hospital is fully
equipped with modern fire-fighting system, equipments such as fire-alarms, fire
extinguishers and smoke detectors but all proved defunct today.
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