Amri hospital Kolkata was the state of the art. It had some of the latest radiation therapy equipment in its Cancer Center. It offers luxurious suites for their wealthiest patients. It's trauma surgery unit was said to be one of the best in eastern India, as well as its highly efficient emergency.
But on Friday at the hospital, known as Amri, faced an emergency situation, as it seems to have no plan. An inferno in the basement of his transformed all hermetically sealed and air conditioned building into a giant pipe to a burning, smoky fires.
When the smoke cleared, there was 94 people dead, dozens wounded, and a nation was left to ask: is nothing, even an expensive, privately run hospitals designed for the country's upwardly mobile direction classes, safe from the disaster that seems to lurk at each rail line, highway on ramp and festival ground?
Omar Abdullah, Chief Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir, summed up the mood when he sent this message on Twitter:''Every time I see events that Amri I am convinced that we are truly a third world nation with megalomania. ''
There seemed to be many reasons why the fire in the 180-bed hospital roared out of control for several hours and produced such disastrous results. Incompetence, poor equipment and poor information led to compound it initially seemed like a small flame.
Doctors on duty fled almost immediately, so that patients stuck in the branches at the mercy of the billowing black smoke, according to witnesses and patients. People who tried to rescue the patients said they were turned away by security guards, who assured them it was just a small kitchen fire. Hospital officials were slow to call the fire department, and then fire engines were slow to come, said hospital officials. Actually, it took firefighters more than 12 hours to suppress the fire. Hospital fire detection and suppression system is not working, said fire officials.
Six directors in Kolkata is Amri Hospital, site of Friday's fire that left at least 91 people were killed and dozens wounded, was detained for nine days of custody, charged with manslaughter on Saturday.
Top businessmen, Ravi Todi, Todi SK, Radhyashyam Goenka, Manish Goenka, Prashant Goenka and Dayanand Agarwal, who serves as board members for the high-profile hospitals, was produced in Alipore court on Saturday.
Shown for the government lawyer and Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Bandopadhyay said smoke detectors of the hospital were all off on Friday.
But on Friday at the hospital, known as Amri, faced an emergency situation, as it seems to have no plan. An inferno in the basement of his transformed all hermetically sealed and air conditioned building into a giant pipe to a burning, smoky fires.
When the smoke cleared, there was 94 people dead, dozens wounded, and a nation was left to ask: is nothing, even an expensive, privately run hospitals designed for the country's upwardly mobile direction classes, safe from the disaster that seems to lurk at each rail line, highway on ramp and festival ground?
Omar Abdullah, Chief Minister of the State of Jammu and Kashmir, summed up the mood when he sent this message on Twitter:''Every time I see events that Amri I am convinced that we are truly a third world nation with megalomania. ''
There seemed to be many reasons why the fire in the 180-bed hospital roared out of control for several hours and produced such disastrous results. Incompetence, poor equipment and poor information led to compound it initially seemed like a small flame.
Doctors on duty fled almost immediately, so that patients stuck in the branches at the mercy of the billowing black smoke, according to witnesses and patients. People who tried to rescue the patients said they were turned away by security guards, who assured them it was just a small kitchen fire. Hospital officials were slow to call the fire department, and then fire engines were slow to come, said hospital officials. Actually, it took firefighters more than 12 hours to suppress the fire. Hospital fire detection and suppression system is not working, said fire officials.
Six directors in Kolkata is Amri Hospital, site of Friday's fire that left at least 91 people were killed and dozens wounded, was detained for nine days of custody, charged with manslaughter on Saturday.
Top businessmen, Ravi Todi, Todi SK, Radhyashyam Goenka, Manish Goenka, Prashant Goenka and Dayanand Agarwal, who serves as board members for the high-profile hospitals, was produced in Alipore court on Saturday.
Shown for the government lawyer and Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Bandopadhyay said smoke detectors of the hospital were all off on Friday.
