The cause of the fire is supposed to be due to a short circuit in the equipment inside the hospital.
The accident occurred at a hospital in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, which is a hospital that treats patients with neocoronitis.A sudden fire broke out in the hospital's intensive care unit (ICU) at the time, resulting in the deaths of eight patients with neocoronavirus pneumonia who were being treated in the ICU. The fire occurred in the intensive care unit on the fourth floor of the hospital. The cause of the fire was a nurse's or doctor's own protective facility, which caught fire due to a short circuit and spread all the way to the entire fourth floor. After the fire, the medical staff was very alarmed, but instead of putting out the fire in time, he panicked and ran into the ICU, causing the fire to spread.
The incident was brought under control an hour after the fire broke out.All the remaining patients in the hospital were transferred to another hospital, but five men and three women still died in the fire. More worryingly, the urgency of the fire and the gravity of the situation led to the emergency transfer of these patients, resulting in the close contact of health care workers with some of the patients during the transfer process, and hence the need to quarantine many of the doctors and nurses, who most likely contracted the New Crown Pneumonia Virus during the transfer process.
This hospital is also private.Anyone who knows India knows that private hospitals in India are much better than public hospitals. Only the rich in India can afford private hospitals. Unlike India's massive arms purchases, India invests very favorably in domestic healthcare. This has resulted in poorly equipped public hospitals in India and many good healthcare workers choose to work in private hospitals due to the high salaries of healthcare workers.
But many people never expected that private hospitals, which represent the high level of care in India, would have such low level problems. It is no longer a financial issue that hospitals will burn many patients due to short circuits. It's a problem with systems, management, monitoring, etc. The fact that these patients are still struggling with their illnesses and not expecting to die in the hospital with high hopes inevitably leads us to revisit the healthcare and living conditions in India.