Five hospitals without fire NOC sealed in Vadodara

VADODARA: Fire officials on Thursday sealed five hospitals in the city for flouting fire safety norms and not getting NOC from the fire brigade despite being notified several times and endangering patients’ lives.
“While auditing the fire safety norms in hospitals, we found many not having safety measures in place. We removed 137 such hospitals from the list of Covid hospitals a week ago and issued notices to them.Many of them have begun applying for NOC,” said Parth Brahmbhatt, chief fire officer.
Dwarkesh Hospital in Manjalpur, Chirag Clinic in Makarpura, Sai Hospital, Chiranjeevi Hospital and Respicare Hospital have been sealed by the fire brigade.
“We sealed hospitals violating the norms and have asked them not to take in any new patients. They can treat existing patients,” Brahmbhatt told TOI. These hospitals won’t be allowed to admit any new patient till they meet all the safety measures and get the NOC from the fire brigade.
The city witnessed fire incidents in both private and government hospitals over last few months. Fire brigade officials and the police department swung into action and began checking the safety norms in hospitals.