Mangaluru, Dec 10: In what could have been a major tragedy, a warmer at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Government Lady Goschen Hospital in the city caught fire on Sunday.
According to sources, there were four newborn babies in the NICU when the incident took place. Apart from them there were five more newborn babies in the adjacent Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the hospital.
As soon as the fire broke out, all the nine babies were taken out and shifted to the Government District Wenlock Hospital. Firefighters from Pandeshwar rushed to the hospital and doused the flames.
Dr Kishori P, in-charge superintendent, Lady Goschen Hospital, said all the babies were safe.
Dr Kishori, said that the warmer was under repair and hence no baby was placed on it on Sunday. “There was interruption in oxygen supply to the warmer due to a technical glitch. When the technicians were working on it, there was a sudden spark. Fortunately, there was no casualty,” she said.
The kidnapped schoolboy was rescued by the police and reunited with his parents. Son of a gift shop owner from Basavanagudi area in Bengaluru, Chirag has reportedly told police that decided to make some quick money to spend on cricket betting and gambling after learning kidnap tricks from the ‘Crime Patrol’. According to police, Chirag reached a private school around 3pm on Tuesday on a Bounce rental bike and zeroed in on a fourth standard student who was walking out of school. He told the boy he was his father's friend and that he required help to search for a relative who had gone missing. The boy believed Chirag and rode pillion on the bike. Chirag then engaged the boy in conversation and learnt about his father's business and got his mobile phone number. He then made a call to the boy's father, demanded Rs 5 lakh and warned him against approaching cops. However, the boy's father alerted Cottonpet police and special teams were formed to crack the case. While Cottonpet inspector Venkatesh TC's squad verified CCTV footage in and around the school, Chamarajpet inspector BG Kumaraswamy's team started tracking the suspect's mobile phone movements. An hour later, the suspect's location was traced to a hotel on the Lavelle Road-St Mark's Road stretch. Police rushed there, rescued the boy and arrested Chirag.
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Find the root cause, fix it for ever and implement in all other hospitals.
this is utter negligency, strict action should be taken whomvr is responsible for the same.
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