Amri Patients

• Kolkata: AMRI Hospital unit reopens two years after fire

  Two years after smoke billowed from a fire in the basement, which smothered to death more than 90 people, mostly patients, a part of the AMRI Hospital in Dhakuria reopened its doors today for treating the sick.

• The AMRI hospital tragedy: one year on

  It's an anniversary no one wants to observe. But there is no escaping the memories of December 9, 2011 when 93 patients at the AMRI hospital in south Kolkata were virtually gassed to death in their hospital beds. A fire in the basement sent noxious smoke surging through the air conditioning ducts. The building was centrally air conditioned and ther...

• International Nurses Day: President gives away Florence Nightingale Awards

  Two nurses, who sacrificed their lives to save patients in the AMRI Hospital fire in Kolkata in December 2011, were among 36 meritorious nursing personnel who were honoured by President Pratibha Patil on the occasion of International Nurses Day on Saturday.

• AMRI hospital fire: Two top Kolkata doctors arrested

  Two top Kolkata doctors have been arrested in connection with the fire tragedy at the AMRI hospital in the city. A pre-dawn blaze at the hospital on December 9 last year had left over 90 people dead. Most of them were patients who choked to death due to toxic smoke.

• Only 30 hospitals have fire safety systems

  Even as Visakhapatnam has emerged as the health hub of the north coastal Andhra and neighbouring Odisha and Chhattisgarh, fire safety arrangements continue to be poor at a majority of the hospitals in the city, ringing alarm bells for the patients and their families.

• AMRI fire: Two more hospital officials arrested

  Two more officials of the AMRI Hospital have been arrested for Friday's devastating fire which left 91 people, including 89 patients, dead.

• Kerala accords state funeral to two AMRI nurses

  Two nurses, who died while saving the lives of patients during a devastating fire at a Kolkata hospital last week, were accorded state funerals in Kerala on Monday.

• Kolkata hospital fire: Man who saved many lives now battling for his own

  A young man, who risked his life to rescue a number of patients from the fire-ravaged Annexe-I building of the AMRI hospital on Friday, is now fighting for his own life at a city hospital.

• Kerala nurses who died saving patients in AMRI fire

  The devastating fire at Kolkata's AMRI Hospital early Friday morning was one of the worst tragedies to have hit the city in recent times. But in those dark hours, there were a few heroes who gave a new lease of life to many people.

• Kolkata fire: Family members vandalise AMRI hospital reception

  Chaos broke out on the premises of the AMRI Hospital with families of patients vandalising the reception counter aggrieved that no list of the dead and injured was provided. Hundreds of family members of patients smashed glass panes at the reception and threw away hospital registers.

• Kolkata: 89 killed in AMRI hospital fire; six board members arrested

  Kolkata hospital fire: Six board members of the AMRI hospital in Kolkata have been arrested for culpable homicide after this morning's fire in which 89 people - 85 patients and four staff members - died. The board members including prominent industrialists SK Todi and RS Goenka - reported to also be the owners of the hospital - voluntarily surrende...