Fire incidents: Inspection of COVID-19 hospitals in Maharashtra begins

Charred remains of the ICU ward of the Vijay Vallabh hospital. Pics/Hanif Patel

In the wake of recent fire incidents in hospitals in Maharashtra, the government has started safety inspection and audit of electrical installations in state as well as private-run COVID-19 medical facilities, a minister said on Thursday.

During the exercise, a major area of inspection and safety audit would be hospital ICUs, air conditioning system and lifts, energy minister Nitin Raut said in a statement.

Taking cognisance of a spate of fire incidents in hospitals in recent times, Rautsaid he had asked the Chief Electrical Inspector to audit electrical safety in hospitals across the state as per the existing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).

Along with electric installations, safety audit of lifts would be also undertaken, he said. Following the order, the Energy Department issued a circular on April 26 for conducting safety audit of all such hospitals and submission of a report to the state government.

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