At least 10 newborns have died in a fire at a hospital in northern India after a blaze broke out in the neonatal ward. Chaos and panic ensued as the fire spread, relatives of the infants have told local media,…
Maharashtra (India) hospital fire: Several Covid patients die of smoke inhalation and burns
A day after a major fire at the ICU of a civil hospital in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district killed 11 people, it has emerged that some of the victims died due to smoke that engulfed the ward following the blaze, according…
Four newborns die in neonatal unit fire in Bhopal hospital
Four newborns died when a fire broke out in the neonatal ward of a hospital in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. Firefighters were able to save 36 babies from the Kamla Nehru Children's Hospital in Bhopal on the…
Eighteen people killed in a fire in a Covid-19 hospital in India’s Gujarat state
At least 18 people were killed in a fire at a hospital in the western Indian state of Gujarat late on Friday (30 April) night. The fire started around midnight in the intensive care ward of the Patel Welfare Hospital,…
Fire in Bangladesh hospital COVID-19 unit kills five
Five people were killed in a top Bangladesh hospital on Wednesday (May 27) after a fire swept through a makeshift coronavirus isolation unit. The blaze occurred in Dhaka’s Gulshan neighbourhood and comes as the country faces a rising number of…
Nine People Killed and Fifteen Injured in Taiwan Hospital Fire
Last Monday (Aug 13) nine people died and were 15 injured when a fire broke out in a government-run Ministry of Health and Welfare Taipei Hospital in New Taipei City. The fire started on the seventh floor of the Taipei…