The blaze erupted around 11 am on Saturday in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) ward where 17 COVID-19 patients were undergoing treatment.
At least 10 coronavirus patients died after a major fire broke out in the ICU ward of the civil hospital in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar on Saturday, officials said.
Four patients died after a fire broke out at a private hospital near Thane, Maharashtra, on Wednesday morning. The fire broke out at the Prime Criticare Hospital at Kausa in Mumbra locality near Thane at 3.40 am. According to officials, the hospital had no coronavirus patients.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday condoled the loss of lives in a blaze at a private hospital in Maharashtra's Palghar district and approved an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh each for the next of kin of the victims.
A total of 10 babies perished in the fire that broke out in the early hours of Saturday at the Special Newborn Care Unit of the four-storeyed district hospital.
Details have revealed the Bhandara district hospital, where the incident took place, lacked fire safety arrangements. According to the details provided by the RTI, the Bhandara hospital, in 2018 had said it lacked the equipment to control fire.
Smoke from the neonatal section of the hospital was at first noticed by a nurse, who raised an alarm. Thereby, doctors and other staff at the hospital reached the spot in five minutes.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar on Saturday ordered audit of all hospitals in state on an urgent basis following the fire incident at Bhandara District General Hospital that claimed lives of 10 people.
There were 17 babies in the unit and seven were rescued. Fire brigade personnel rescued seven babies from the 'inbound ward' of the unit but could not save the 10 other babies.
A fire broke out in an ICU section of a government hospital in Maharashtra's Kolhapur district early Monday morning, an official said. All 15 patients who were in the ICU section were immediately shifted out and the blaze has been extinguished, he said.
A private hospital in Maharashtra has been asked by the district administration to deposit Rs 1.93 lakh into the Chief Minister's Relief Fund for allegedly overcharging COVID-19 patients, officials said.
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