It took firemen three hours to douse the flames but the hospital is yet to be fully operational. Families of patients have complained of insufficient fire fighting systems at the hospital and their claims were affirmed by Fire Service officials. He said that the blaze began in a store room on the hospital’s ground floor before spreading throughout hospital as flames always move upwards. We are now checking all rooms,” the director general said around 8:00 pm Thursday. The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) formed a seven-membered panel headed by an additional secretary to look into the incident, said Abul Kalam Azad, the director general of DGHS.

Source: bd News24 February 15, 2019 09:00 UTC