Around 50 people, including patients and staff members, at the Lok Nayak Hospital in Central Delhi were evacuated after a fire broke out in the seven-storey emergency block building, an ofꦗficial said on Tuesday.
Chief of Delhi Fire ♈Services Atul Garg said they received a call about the blaze from the hospital at around 10.18 pm on Monday.
A total of 10 fire 💛𝓀engines were immediately pressed into service. The fire broke out due to a short circuit in the OPD main casualty ward. It took almost an hour to extinguish the blaze completely, he said.
Around 50 people, including patients and hospital staff🐽, we🦹re evacuated, Garg said.
According to police, the fire broke out on the third-fl🔥oor emergency ward. They rushed to the spot and flames were found in a shaft of cables on the third and fourth flo🅘ors.
"Fire tenders were provided a clear passage up to the emergency ward. Police and hospital staff evacuated the patients from th෴e ground floor. Theౠ fire was soon extinguished. No one was injured," a senior police officer said.
A senior doctor at the LNJP Hospital said, "It would♕ have been a m💧ajor accident had our staff not been alert."
"The fire broke out on the third floor of the seven-storey emergency block building, and our sta𝕴ff responded to the fire immediately and also alerted the Delhi Fire authorities," the doctor said.
As hos💫pital staff are trained to respond in such a situation and mock drills have been held in the past, many of them used fire extinguishers themselves to douse the flames before the fire tenders reached, the hospital officials said🎐.
The cause of the fire is suspected to be a short circuit in a pa🀅rt of the emergency block, which houses the OPD ward and the casua🎃lty ward adjoining it, they said.
"There has been no casualty," the doctor said.
