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A large mishap was averted astatine the Government Medical College Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram connected Tuesday, acknowledgment to the swift effect by healthcare workers who managed to extinguish a occurrence which broke retired successful the surgical ICU connected the archetypal level of the Multispeciality artifact astatine the hospital.
No injuries were reported successful the incident, which took spot astatine astir 8.55 a.m., and each patients successful the ICU were evacuated and moved to safety. The hospital, the oldest and a prestigious tertiary attraction instauration successful the State, is visited by thousands each day.
Mayor V.V. Rajesh, City Police Commissioner K. Karthick and Additional Chief Secretary (Health) Rajan Khobragade rushed to the spot successful alarm to negociate the situation.
Ventilator burst
The occurrence broke retired wrong a ventilator, which burst, but the location surgeons, doctors, and nurses successful the ICU acted swiftly, cutting disconnected the oxygen enactment and managed to bring the occurrence nether power utilizing the occurrence extinguishers wrong the facility.
However, heavy fume from the ventilator and its parts filled the ICU, creating overmuch panic amongst the hundreds of people, including patients’ families, who were waiting extracurricular the ICU.
By the clip 2 fireforce units from Chackai and Chengalchoola occurrence stations took implicit the scene, the concern was already nether control.
Patients shifted out
The 16 patients wrong the ICU were instantly shifted retired and different 16 patients successful the ward other the ICU were besides moved successful nary time. As a substance of “abundant precaution”, astir 63 patients successful the cardiothoracic and pulmonary ICUs successful the 2nd and 3rd level of the artifact were besides shifted out. All patients person been accommodated successful wards 7 and 8 wherever ICU facilities were created. Despite the anxiousness they went through, each patients are stable, aesculapian assemblage authorities said.
Dr. Khobragade, who visited the hospital, was each praise for the singular beingness of caput and courageousness shown by the healthcare personnel, whose contiguous effect had helped douse the occurrence and get the concern nether control.
Safety audit
He said that a squad from the electrical inspectorate was inspecting the electrical wiring of the full gathering to pinpoint the origin of the fire.
“We person requested the electrical inspectorate to behaviour a information audit and preventive method investigation of the aesculapian assemblage buildings successful each districts, “ helium said.
BJP person and erstwhile Union Minister V. Muraleedharan, who visited the MCH, said that hundreds of patients were successful the gathering astatine the clip of the occurrence and a one-line connection from the authorities that the concern was brought nether power was not satisfactory.
He demanded that a superior enquiry beryllium conducted into the incident. He added that the drawstring of incidents, including accidents and alleged negligences, volition erode the public’s assurance successful the wellness system.
