SRINAGAR, Mar 5: The Out Patient Department (OPD) and Emergency Services at fire ravaged Bone and Joint Hospital will resume from the unaffected building of the complex soon, officials said.
The main building of Bone and Joint hospital at Barzulla was destroyed in a devastating fire incident Friday evening that led the authorities to move all the patients to other nearby hospitals for treatment.
“The cause of fire that caused the extensive damage to the Bone and Joint Hospital on Friday evening is being ascertained”, said Dr Samia Rashid Principal Government Medical College Srinagar in a statement.
She also denied that the fire was caused due to the LPG cylinder blasts at Bone and Joint Hospital at Barzulla Srinagar.
The investigations in the cause of fire is being ascertained while restoring the immediate patient care especially of shifted patients to various hospitals and resumption of OPD and Emergency Services at unaffected building of Bone and Joint Hospital Barzulla is top priority this time, she said.
A massive fire on Friday evening completely destroyed Kashmir’s only orthopedic hospital and prompted authorities to evacuate 113 patients to other hospitals while many others left on their own, officials said.
The J & K Government said they are looking at reasons why the incident happened despite regular fire safety audits and adequate measures.
Officials said the massive fire broke out in the 250 beds Bone and Joint Hospital Barzulla in Srinagar at around 2130 hours. The fire started from the emergency theatre on the third floor of the old building of the hospital and it spread to inpatient wards very quickly. Heavy blasts were heard apparently.
Fire and Emergency Services deployed almost their entire fleet to douse the fire. Police, State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), fire department personnel and local volunteers worked in tandem in shifting the patients out of the hospital amid the raging fire. (AGENCIES)
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