Covid Hospital Fire

Chinese authorities said Thursday they have punished officials after footage went viral of an eight-month pregnant woman miscarrying in the locked-down city of Xi'an when a hospital refused her entry without a Covid test.

Fire brigade personnel had hard time dousing the fire at the ICU of the Ahmednagar civil hospital in Maharashtra on Friday morning as they could not enter through the main entrance due to smoke, and the windows had grills over them.

Eleven patients have died after a fire broke out in the COVID-19 ward of the Civil Hospital in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar this morning; one patient has been seriously injured.

Ten people died in a fire Wednesday at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in North Macedonia, the country's health minister said.

Gujarat's move to ease hospital building safety rules amid Covid was slammed today by the Supreme Court, which put the order on hold and said: "To save lives in the pandemic we are killing people with fire."

Batting for her state's Covid pandemic performance, Kerala Health Minister Veena George, under fire for the rising number of new cases, reiterated her government's stand this this trend was expected. However, she sought more vaccines from the Centre.

Gujarat pulled up by Supreme Court for defying its order on fire safety audit in Covid hospitals

Videos shared online showed thick clouds of smoke billowing from the Al Hussein hospital.

Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Friday responded to accusations the state's Congress government has been "diverting" Covid vaccines to private hospitals at "hefty margins"

From fake medicines to fire extinguishers disguised as oxygen cylinders and recycled personal protective equipment, India's coronavirus hell has been lucrative for its ever-inventive army of scammers, with sometimes deadly consequences.

Nearly half of around 1,130 COVID-19 designated hospitals across municipal corporations and municipalities in six Gujarat districts do not possess a valid fire safety NOC from the local authorities, officials said in the High Court on Monday.

At least 18 coronavirus patients died after a fire broke out at a hospital in Gujarat's Bharuch in the early hours on Saturday.

Four patients of coronavirus died in Surat after a fire broke out at the city's Ayush Hospital on Sunday night.

A total of 16 critical COVID-19 patients were rescued and shifted to safer places after a fire broke out in the ICU of a private hospital in Surat, Gujarat, on Sunday night, officials said.

More than 80 people died Sunday in a fire that ripped through an Iraqi Covid-19 hospital, sparking anger and prompting the suspension of top officials in a country with long-dilapidated health infrastructure.

Chinese authorities said Thursday they have punished officials after footage went viral of an eight-month pregnant woman miscarrying in the locked-down city of Xi'an when a hospital refused her entry without a Covid test.

Fire brigade personnel had hard time dousing the fire at the ICU of the Ahmednagar civil hospital in Maharashtra on Friday morning as they could not enter through the main entrance due to smoke, and the windows had grills over them.

Eleven patients have died after a fire broke out in the COVID-19 ward of the Civil Hospital in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar this morning; one patient has been seriously injured.

Ten people died in a fire Wednesday at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in North Macedonia, the country's health minister said.

Gujarat's move to ease hospital building safety rules amid Covid was slammed today by the Supreme Court, which put the order on hold and said: "To save lives in the pandemic we are killing people with fire."

Batting for her state's Covid pandemic performance, Kerala Health Minister Veena George, under fire for the rising number of new cases, reiterated her government's stand this this trend was expected. However, she sought more vaccines from the Centre.

Gujarat pulled up by Supreme Court for defying its order on fire safety audit in Covid hospitals

Videos shared online showed thick clouds of smoke billowing from the Al Hussein hospital.

Punjab Health Minister Balbir Singh Sidhu on Friday responded to accusations the state's Congress government has been "diverting" Covid vaccines to private hospitals at "hefty margins"

From fake medicines to fire extinguishers disguised as oxygen cylinders and recycled personal protective equipment, India's coronavirus hell has been lucrative for its ever-inventive army of scammers, with sometimes deadly consequences.

Nearly half of around 1,130 COVID-19 designated hospitals across municipal corporations and municipalities in six Gujarat districts do not possess a valid fire safety NOC from the local authorities, officials said in the High Court on Monday.

At least 18 coronavirus patients died after a fire broke out at a hospital in Gujarat's Bharuch in the early hours on Saturday.

Four patients of coronavirus died in Surat after a fire broke out at the city's Ayush Hospital on Sunday night.

A total of 16 critical COVID-19 patients were rescued and shifted to safer places after a fire broke out in the ICU of a private hospital in Surat, Gujarat, on Sunday night, officials said.

More than 80 people died Sunday in a fire that ripped through an Iraqi Covid-19 hospital, sparking anger and prompting the suspension of top officials in a country with long-dilapidated health infrastructure.