Ahmednagar Hospital Fire: Maharashtra minister Nawab Malik said the ICU had been newly built to treat Covid patients, and the fact that a fire had broken out was a "very serious issue"
Updated: November 06, 2021 5:17 pm IST
Ahmednagar:
Eleven patients died after a fire broke out in the ICU (intensive care unit) of the Civil Hospital in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar on Saturday morning.
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Three to four others have been injured and are being treated. The fire was in the hospital's COVID-19 ward, in which 17 patients had been admitted.
The remaining patients have been shifted to a Covid ward in another hospital, District Collector Rajendra Bhosle told reporters, adding that a 'fire audit' of the structure had been conducted.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted in the evening to say he was "anguished by the loss of lives"
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