The fireplace at a hospital in Uttar Pradesh that killed 11 newborns, was totally unintentional and never deliberate, a two-member committee investigating the matter has discovered.
The fireplace broke out round 10.45 pm on Friday within the neonatal wards of Jhansi’s Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical School, one of many largest authorities hospitals within the state’s Bundelkhand area.
Sources stated the hearth was attributable to a brief circuit within the switchboard and couldn’t be introduced underneath management as sprinklers weren’t put in in paediatrics ward. The docs informed the investigation committee that water sprinklers aren’t put in within the NICU ward as a result of presence of newborns.
On the time, six nurses and different employees and two docs have been current within the NICU ward. One of many nurses sustained burns whereas trying to douse the hearth.
The fireplace from the switchboard had began spreading in the direction of the oxygen concentrator. A paramedical employees and two others went in with hearth extinguishers. However by then, the hearth had unfold elsewhere, sources stated, pointing to the findings of the committee.