Report on fire safety at hospitals
HC asks director general
The High Court yesterday asked for a report on fire safety measures at hospitals, clinics and other health centres across the country.
The director general of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) will have to submit the report by February 28, Deputy Attorney General ABM Altaf Hossain told The Daily Star.
The court directive came in a suo moto move after a report was published in a Bangla daily yesterday that most of the hospitals and clinics are at risk and most health centres do not have fire fighting equipment to douse fire.
The HC bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and Justice Jahangir Hossain Salim passed the directive.
The directive came three days after a devastating fire swept through at a super-specialty hospital, AMRI Hospital, in Dhakuria locality in Kolkata. A total of 92 people, including one Bangladeshi, were killed in the fire.
Gauranga Mondol, the 75-year-old Bangladeshi citizen, had gone all the way from Munshiganj to India with a hope to get back a healthy life just three days before the fire incident.
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