Taipei authorities tipped off about illegal facilityFATAL FIRE: The health department is trying to contact the inspector who visited the site of the illegal nursing home to ask why they did not advise follow-up checksBy Lee I-chia / Staff reporterThe Taipei City Government yesterday said that a health department inspector last year had visited the site of a long-term care facility in Neihu District (內湖) after receiving a report questioning its status. The Taipei Fire Department said that it received a report about a fire on the first floor of a four-story residential building on Kangning Road Sec. Firefighters look through the cut-open steel shutter of an unregistered long-term care facility in Taipei’s Neihu District on Tuesday after putting out a fire that caused the death of three residents. A health department inspector, accompanied by the borough warden and police, went to the reported address on Sept. 17 last year. The health department is trying to contact the investigator, who was a contracted personnel, to clarify why there was no follow-up on the case.

Source: Taipei Times September 23, 2020 15:56 UTC