BENGALURU: A fire broke out at the burns ward of the Victoria Hospital in the wee hours of Tuesday around 3 am. The fire was triggered by a short circuit at one of the switch boards behind a refrigerator in the seminar room of MBCC block.
As a precautionary measure, all the 26 burns patients including five in the ICU ward were immediately shifted to the H Block of the hospital from the burns ward in view of the smoke.
Of the 26, seven were children, five female and 14 male patients. All the patients, para medical staff and medical staff are safe, said the hospital sources.
The management informed the fire department immediately after noticing the fire.
Dr Divya, the doctor who was on night rounds said that she heard some kind of sound in the switch board at the seminar room while going to the washroom. The interns who were also there saw the fire within a few minutes.
Immediately the matter was reported to the seniors and all the patients were shifted to another block as a precautionary measure. The switch board where the fire broke was far away from the patients, she said.
The fire was put out by the fire department personnel.
Hospital statement:
This is to inform you that there was a small fire (due to short circuit of a switch board) in the Seminar room in Burns block (MBCC) of Victoria Hospital at 3am today.
The fire department came & put out the fire. There were totally 26 patients (male-14, female-5 & children-7), among them 5 patients were in ICU.
In view of the smoke & as a precautionary measure, we have shifted all the Burns patients (26 patients) from this ward to H Block of Victoria Hospital.
Myself (Dr. Ramesh Krishna Dean & Director, BMCRI), Dr. Deepak, Medical Superintendent, Victoria Hospital, Dr. Yogeshwarappa, HOD & Dr. Smitha, Professor of plastic surgery dept. are here.
All the patients, patient attenders, Doctors & Hospital Staff are safe & the situation is under control, according to Dr. Ramesh Krishna. K, Dean & Director
BMCRI