Rescue work underway at the Institute of Medical Sciences and Sum Hospital in Bhubaneswar. Photo: PTIBhubaneswar: At least 22 patients were killed and over 20 others injured in a fire that broke out at the Sum Hospital in Bhubaneswar on Monday evening, in one of the worst such incidents involving a medical facility in Odisha. While 14 patients were received “brought dead” at the Capital Hospital, eight were “brought dead” to AMRI Hospital from the fire-struck private medical facility, officials said. Our doctors have declared eight persons as brought dead.”“Most of the victims were in the first floor ICU of the ill-fated Sum Hospital,” a doctor at Capital Hospital said. He directed government hospitals to provide necessary treatment to patients shifted from Sum Hospital and requested all private hospitals to extend treatment as well.

Source: Mint October 17, 2016 17:26 UTC