Fire was reported at Victoria Hospital's Burns Block at 3 am on Tuesday. The fire tenders were rushed to the Hospital and the senior Hospital administration were at the Hospital inspecting the incident.
Credit: BMCRI
Bengaluru: A short circuit at one of the switch boards triggered a fire at the Victoria Hospital in the wee hours of Tuesday.
The fire was reported from the seminar room in the burns block at 3 am.
Image showing the fire inside the Victoria Hospital premises.
Credit: BMCRI
According to a statement by the hospital, there were 26 patients in the affected block, and among them, 5 patients were in ICU.
“In view of the smoke and as a precautionary measure, we have shifted all the burns patients (26 patients) from this ward to H Block of Victoria Hospital,” Dr Ramesh Krishna, Dean and Director, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute (BMCRI), said in a statement.
Fire tenders were rushed to the hospital and all the patients, attenders, and staff are safe, the hospital management said.