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At least nine People they died in this fire from hospital districts Pingtungin the south Taiwanafter the fire spread through a room containing a large amount of electrical equipment and high-voltage cables, state news agency CNA reported.
There were victims eight patientsmost of them elderly people with limited mobility and worker from the hospital center, which did not respond to attempts at resuscitation by emergency personnel.
The incident occurred around 7:41 a.m. on Thursday when a fire broke out. fire on the second floor of the house Dungang Antai Hospitala coastal village located in Pingtung County.
He fire had his own start off in one room which housed a large amount of electrical equipment and high voltage cables, spreads quickly to the third and fourth floors, further complicating rescue efforts.
firefighters they succeeded put out the fire around 1:08 p.m. and about a hundred patients were hospitalized. evacuated successfully to other hospital centers.
The victims were mainly elderly people with limited mobility, who due to their advanced age and fragile state of health they couldn’t survive smoke inhalation.
In statements to the media, the hospital’s honorary director Su Ching-chuan said the center carry out checks scheduled firefighting operations every month, but in this case the smoke was so thick that it caused “chimney effect“, suffocating eight patients while they rested in their beds.
The medical officer explained that the cause of the fire will be investigated this Friday and that the hospital will take responsibility.”any liabilityto the families of the victims.
The honorary director of the center emphasized that electricity “It was unstable” as the night before the storm hit, with wind gusts of up to 162 kilometers per hour causing damage to the port city of Kaohsiung throughout the day.
“Behind him typhoon Morakot (2009), electricity was cut for five days, the hospital generator operated without problems,” Su warned, criticizing the power company for not directly cutting off the power as soon as the problem was discovered.
EFE
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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