A minor fire broke out in a private hospital on Mahatma Gandhi Road here on Wednesday. However, no one was injured and no damages reported as the alert hospital staff immediately shifted the patients to the hospital’s annexe building on Bussy Street.
According to sources, the fire started in the storeroom housing scrap material on the second floor of the hospital and smoke engulfed the area. The alert duty doctors and hospital staff shifted 18 in-patients to the hospital’s annexe building. Fire and Rescue Services personnel put out the flames quickly. An official of the Fire and Rescue Services said a short-circuit in the AC unit may have caused the fire.
Meanwhile, the hospital authorities in a statement said that smoke started billowing out from the store room at around 8 a.m. As the smoke alarm went off, the alert staff shut down power supply and shifted the in-patients as a safety measure. None of the staff or patients was injured in the incident and the hospital started functioning after following safety measures.
