FOUR PATIENTS DEAD IN HOSPITAL FIRE IN MAHA

THANE: Four patients died after a fire broke out at a private hospital near Thane in Maharashtra in the wee hours of Wednesday, a civic official said.

The patients died while being shifted to other hospitals after the blaze and not due to burns, the official said. They may have inhaled smoke after the fire, he added.

The incident comes five days after 15 coronavirus patients died in a blaze in the intensive care unit of a private hospital at Virar in the adjoining Palghar district.

Wednesday’s fire broke out at the Prime Criticare Hospital at Kausa-mumbra locality at 3.40 am, the official said. There were no coronavirus patients in the hospital, he added.