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发帖数: 27535 | 1 Hospital staff abandon patients to fire
KOLKATA, India (AP) — Indian police say the death toll from a fire that
raged through a Kolkata hospital has risen to 88.
Authorities have accused hospital staff of abandoning patients as the smoke
and flames raced through the AMRI Hospital in the eastern Indian city early
Friday. Police arrested six hospital officials on charges of culpable
homicide.
Danayati Sen, a top Kolkata police official, said 73 bodies were pulled out
of the hospital and an additionar 15 people succumbed to their injuries.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP'
s earlier story is below.
KOLKATA, India (AP) — Indian police arrested six hospital officials Friday
on charges of culpable homicide after a fire in their medical facility
killed 73 people.
Top state officials in West Bengal had accused the staff at AMRI Hospital of
abandoning their patients and fleeing as smoke and flames poured through
the building in the pre-dawn hours Friday.
Six directors from the hospital company were charged with culpable homicide
and surrendered to police in the eastern city of Kolkata, police said. The
police spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to
speak to the media.
"It was horrifying that the hospital authorities did not make any effort to
rescue trapped patients," said Subrata Mukherjee, West Bengal state minister
for public health engineering. "Senior hospital authorities ran away after
the fire broke out."
The hospital expressed regret over the deaths, and denied any violations of
safety measures.
As the fire raged, rescue workers on long ladders smashed windows in the
upper floors of the AMRI Hospital to pull trapped patients out before they
suffocated from smoke inhalation, while sobbing relatives waited on the
street below. Rescue workers took patients on stretchers and in wheelchairs
to a nearby hospital.
Moon Moon Chakraborty, who was in the hospital with a broken ankle, called
her husband S. Chakraborty at home to tell him a fire had broken out.
"She had died by the time I reached the hospital," her husband said.
The fire killed 73 people, including three hospital workers, said Satyabrata
Upadhyay, a senior vice president of the AMRI hospital company. The
remainder of the dead were presumably patients and relatives who were aiding
in their care. Rescue officials said many of the dead suffered from smoke
inhalation.
At the time of the blaze, there were 160 patients in the 190-bed hospital
annex, Upadhyay said.
The loss of life was "extremely unfortunate and painful," but the facility
followed strict fire safety measure, he said. He promised to give 200,000
rupees, (about $4,000) to the relatives of the dead.
"We deeply sympathize and share the pain and agony of the family members of
the patients admitted here," he said.
The expensive AMRI private hospital was recently rated one of the best
hospitals in the city by an Indian magazine. However, safety regulations are
routinely ignored at hospitals throughout India. | Z**S
发帖数: 1211 | 2 怎么回事？ 民主国家怎么能发生让病人烧死的事情！？
这难道不是万饿的中国的专利吗？
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: Hospital staff abandon patients to fire
: KOLKATA, India (AP) — Indian police say the death toll from a fire that
: raged through a Kolkata hospital has risen to 88.
: Authorities have accused hospital staff of abandoning patients as the smoke
: and flames raced through the AMRI Hospital in the eastern Indian city early
: Friday. Police arrested six hospital officials on charges of culpable
: homicide.
: Danayati Sen, a top Kolkata police official, said 73 bodies were pulled out
: of the hospital and an additionar 15 people succumbed to their injuries.
: THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP'
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