BHOPAL: As many as 80 sufferers, together with 62 individuals contaminated with COVID-19, have been rescued from a non-public hospital in Ujjain that caught fireplace on Sunday afternoon.
The hearth which was presumably triggered by an electrical brief circuit unfold quick to your entire first and second flooring of the Patidar Hospital within the Freeganj space of the district.
In accordance with further SP, Ujjain, Amrendra Singh, the hearth unfold to the 2 flooring which have been housing the COVID-19 ICU and the isolation wards. “Hearth brigade groups and police personnel swung into motion in a short while and all of the 80 sufferers, together with 62 COVID-19 sufferers and round 18 different sufferers have been rescued safely out of the hospital. The hearth too was doused in a short while,” Singh instructed The New Indian Categorical.
The rescued sufferers have been shifted both to the Guru Nanak Hospital or to authorities hospitals, official sources stated.
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Whereas no casualty has been reported within the incident, some sufferers, together with an aged girl have reportedly sustained burn accidents.
Nevertheless, as per unconfirmed reviews, some sufferers who presumably jumped out of the hospital to save lots of their lives might have suffered main accidents.
In accordance with Ujjain district chief medical and well being officer (CMHO) Dr Mahavir Khandelwal, 4 COVID-19 sufferers rescued from the hearth sustained burn accidents. Two girls aged between 75 and 85 years are acknowledged to be essential and have been rushed to neighbouring Indore.
The situation of the remaining two, hospitalised at Guru Nanak Hospital in Ujjain, is out of hazard.
