<p>A fire broke out near the paediatric ward of West Bengal’s largest state-run hospital SSKM Saturday night. There was panic but no casualties or injuries, an official said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The fire has been arrested, said SSKM hospital superintendent Tamal Kanti Ghosh.<br />Around 80 children admitted in the Allex ward were evacuated through the back door.<br /><br />“Four fire tenders were rushed to control the fire. The situation is now under control. All children are safe,” said a fire brigade official.<br /><br />The fire was noticed around 10 pm when smoke was seen billowing out of the seminar room on the fourth floor of the main building of the hospital. <br /><br />“The fire was caused by a short circuit in an air-conditioning machine. The fire has been doused,” said Fire Services Minister Javed Ahmed Khan.<br /><br />A fire incident had happened in the same hospital March 21 and dozens of critical patients had to be evacuated from the emergency OPD after thick smoke bellowed from there.<br /><br />In December last year, 94 patients and staffers died when a blaze in the basement Kolkata’s well-known AMRI (Advanced Medicare Research Institute) Hospital engulfed its annexe building with noxious smoke, trapping helpless patients while most doctors and others fled to safety.<br /></p>
<p>A fire broke out near the paediatric ward of West Bengal’s largest state-run hospital SSKM Saturday night. There was panic but no casualties or injuries, an official said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The fire has been arrested, said SSKM hospital superintendent Tamal Kanti Ghosh.<br />Around 80 children admitted in the Allex ward were evacuated through the back door.<br /><br />“Four fire tenders were rushed to control the fire. The situation is now under control. All children are safe,” said a fire brigade official.<br /><br />The fire was noticed around 10 pm when smoke was seen billowing out of the seminar room on the fourth floor of the main building of the hospital. <br /><br />“The fire was caused by a short circuit in an air-conditioning machine. The fire has been doused,” said Fire Services Minister Javed Ahmed Khan.<br /><br />A fire incident had happened in the same hospital March 21 and dozens of critical patients had to be evacuated from the emergency OPD after thick smoke bellowed from there.<br /><br />In December last year, 94 patients and staffers died when a blaze in the basement Kolkata’s well-known AMRI (Advanced Medicare Research Institute) Hospital engulfed its annexe building with noxious smoke, trapping helpless patients while most doctors and others fled to safety.<br /></p>