A major fire broke out on the first floor of Metro Heart Institute in Noida’s sector-12 on Thursday afternoon.
A major fire broke out on the first floor of Metro Heart Institute in Noida’s sector-12 on Thursday afternoon. However, there are no reports of casualties so far.
Sixty-six patients were in the hospital when fire broke out at 12.10pm. Second, third and fourth floors were the worst affected by the fire. Around 35 patients, who were on the second floor at the time, were shifted to a nearby multispeciality hospital run by the Metro group. and the cause of the accident is yet to be ascertained. Six fire tenders which rushed to the spot have managed to douse the fire.
Parmananda, an eye witness blamed the hospital for the fire and said the fire system there was out of order. He had rushed to the hospital as soon as he heard about the fire and saw that the doctors and senior staff at the hospital were the first to escape. “Junior staff and guards stayed back to help patients,” he added.
Ramvati whose husband Ramveer who was a patient at hospital, shifted after fire: we were on the fourth floor. Saw smoke coming and were asked to quickly move to the third floor. There we broke the windows, threw our bags outside and ran downstairs. Have lost my chappals. But everyone survived, that’s important.Police and firemen were kind men who carried us and brought us to safety . A person like me would have otherwise died.
The heart institute, which is run by the Metro Hospitals Group, was established in 1997 and has 110 beds. A 207-bed multispecialty hospital belonging to the same group is located less than 200 metres away from the institute.