New Delhi: A 64-year-old patient on a ventilator died after a fire broke out in the hospital where he was admitted in the national capital’s Rohini area, a fire official said on Saturday. The deceased, identified as Ramsevak, a resident of Prem Nagar, was suffering with renal ailment and was on a ventilator.
According to the official, they received a call about the fire incident around 5 a.m. at the Braham Shakti Hospital, located at Rohini in northwest Delhi following which as many as nine fire tenders were immediately pressed into service. “The fire was reported in the ICU ward on the third floor of the hospital building,” Delhi Fire Service chief Atul Garg said, adding that all the patients were safely evacuated except one who was on a life support system. He said that no fire fighting system was found in working condition and even the exit gate was found to be locked.