Bharuch hospital fire

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Date1 May 2021 (2021-05-01)
Time1 AM (IST)
LocationWelfare Hospital, Bharuch, Gujarat, India
TypeFire
Bharuch hospital fire
Date1 May 2021 (2021-05-01)
Time1 AM (IST)
LocationWelfare Hospital, Bharuch, Gujarat, India
TypeFire
CauseShort circuit[1] (under investigation)
Deaths18

On 1 May 2021, a fire in a hospital in Bharuch, Gujarat, India, killed at least 16 COVID-19 patients and 2 nurses.[2]

India is badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and facing a second wave of the pandemic. On 23 April 2021, 13 COVID-19 patients in a hospital in Virar, Maharashtra, died after a fire broke out at the intensive care unit (ICU) of the hospital.[3]

Incident

In the early hours of 1 May 2021, at 1 AM, a fire broke out in the COVID-19 ward of Bharuch Welfare Hospital, a COVID-19 designated hospital, located around 190 km from Ahmedabad, Gujarat.[4]

Aftermath

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