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Kolkata: 90 dead in AMRI Hospital fire

Ronan Kelly

Ronan Kelly

Retired 2020
India | Updated Dec 09, 2011 at 04:58pm IST
Kolkata: 73 dead in AMRI Hospital fire, owners surrender
CNN-IBN
Kolkata: The owners of AMRI Hospital, RS Goenka and SK Todi, have surrendered before the Kolkata police at Lal Bazar Police Headquarters on Friday after a major fire at the hospital in South Kolkata left 73 dead. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee claimed that at least 73 people are dead in the major fire that broke out at AMRI Hospital in Dhakuria in south Kolkata on Friday.
Out of the 73 dead, 70 were patients and 3 were the hospital staff. Reports said that the hospital authorities fled from the spot. Meanwhile, the registration of the hospital has also been cancelled the West Bengal government.
Out of the 150 people admitted in the hospital, 90 were rescued.

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http://ibnlive.in.com/news/kolkata-fire-70-dead-amri-faces-tough-action/210300-3.html
 
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Re: Kolkata: 73 dead in AMRI Hospital fire

Most of those who died were ICCU, ICU patients; owners held; licence revoked
Hospital fire consumes 90 in Kolkata
Kolkata, Dec 9, DHNS:

Kolkata woke up on Friday to the country?s worst and most ghastly hospital disaster as 90 people, mostly ICCU and ICU patients, were asphyxiated to death, some in their sleep, when a deadly fire broke out in the annexe building of a top-notch super-speciality private hospital here.


The deaths caused a violent backlash against the owners of AMRI Hospitals ? a Shrachi-Emami joint venture run by the house of one of Kolkata?s wealthiest businessmen, the Todis ? with relatives of those who perished and local residents venting their fury and destroying hospital property in the congested and thickly populated residential locality of Dhakuria in south Kolkata.

AMRI Hospitals is jointly promoted by the RS Goenka-led Emami Group and the S K Todi-led Shrachi Group of companies. Of the 90 who died, three were hospital staff.
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Asphyxiation
It was not the fire that killed the patients and others but the thick black smoke that engulfed five floors of the the centrally air-conditioned hospital that caused asphyxiation and death.

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http://www.deccanherald.com/content/210378/84-die-suffocation-hospital-fire.html
 
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