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Mangaluru: Close shave for newborn babies as warmer catches fire at NICU of Lady Goschen Hospital

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December 10, 2018

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.

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Abdul Rahman
 - 
Wednesday, 12 Dec 2018

Find the root cause, fix it for ever and implement in all other hospitals. 

gayathri
 - 
Monday, 10 Dec 2018

this is utter negligency, strict action should be taken whomvr is responsible for the same.

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