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Fire breaks out at Mumbai hospital, patients evacuated

An official reported on Sunday that a hospital in Mumbai’s Vikhroli East neighborhood caught fire. In the Vikroli East neighborhood, the Dr. Ambedkar Hospital caught fire. But there were no reported deaths or injuries from the fire.

According to the official, a fire call was received at 1.47 am on Sunday. Fire tenders were rushed to the spot and the flames was doused around 2.25 am.
Sx patients, identified as Shivaji Dhele (65), Vimal Tiwari (60), Yashodabai Rathod (58), Kantaprasad Nirmal (75), Arun Haribhagat (64), and Sushmita Ghokshe (23), were evacuated and shifted to the Rajawadi hospital in the Rajawadi area of Ghatkopar, Mumbai, officials informed further.
The fire was confined to the main cable of the air suction motor in the ICU on the ground floor and the three upper floors, officials added.
However, the officials were still in the process of determining the cause of the fire at the time of filing this report.
Further details are awaited.

Sagarika Gautam

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