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Massive
fire in Kolkata hospital, patients feared trapped
Friday December 09, 2011 08:31:48 AM,
IANS
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Kolkata: Several people
including patients are feared trapped and injured in a massive
fire that broke out at the AMRI hospital in Dhakuria of south
Kolkata early Friday, police and witnesses said.
Around 20 fire engines have rushed to the spot and patients and
hospital staff are being evacuated. The fire fighters were using
hydraulic ladders to rescue the patients and office staff by
cutting open the glasses with gas cutters.
"The number of injuries is still not known. The fire engulfed four
floors of one of the buildings of the AMRI hospital in Dhakuria.
Now the fire has been restricted to the basement," an officer
manning the city police control room told IANS over phone.
Witnesses said several people were likely to have sustained
injuries.
Fire services minister Javed Khan said: "The fire is under control
but yet to be doused completely. My men are putting out fire in
one spot only to find another area in flames. There are lot of
combustible materials."
A patient in his 50s admitted in the second floor of the affected
building said he was brought down by breaking the glass windows.
"Around 4 a.m. when I had gone to the toilet I heard nurses saying
that a portion of the building has caught fire. But they did not
help me. Finally along with some other patients I came near a
window. Then the fire brigade personnel came and rescued me by
breaking open the glass windows."
"I tried to bring all my medical papers but they slipped out of my
hands. I have lost them," said the sobbing patient.
Another patient said: "There was smoke. I helped many of the
patients come out of their wards. But it is my misfortune that I
could not bring out two seriously ill patients."
Some of the patients in the affected building have been shifted to
two other blocks in the hospital complex.
Hundreds of relatives of the patients admitted in the hospital
were seen weeping and pleading with the firemen and disaster
management personnel for news of their dear ones.
"We came to the hospital at the crack of dawn when we got to hear
of the fire from television. We don't know what has happened to
our patient," said a relative.
City police commissioner Ranjit Pachnanda and state municipal
affairs minister Firhad Hakim were at the spot.
When contacted, a senior hospital official said: "I can't tell you
anything now."
He also could not give the number of patients trapped or admitted
in the hospital at the time of the fire.
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