Patients’ relatives claim that hospital authorities were indifferent and late in informing fire services. Hospital authorities denied allegations of negligence and said the patients may have suffocated quickly as they were already suffering from breathing problems. We called the hospital authorities, but no one responded immediately. The night of the fire, the hospital authorities told her that her husband was fine and resting after having his dinner. Dr Shagufa Anwar, chief of Communication and Business Development of United Hospital Limited, told Dhaka Tribune that allegations of the hospital authorities had a delayed response were not true.

Source: Dhaka Tribune May 29, 2020 18:11 UTC