After ICU fire kills 6, Jaipur hospital superintendent, Trauma Centre in-charge removed from post

Dr Anurag Dhakad, a senior professor at the Department of Orthopedics, was replaced as the nodal officer of the Trauma Centre by Dr Bhanwar Lal Yadav, senior professor, Department of General Surgery, the order said.

The government has also announced Rs 10 lakh to the families of those who died in the tragedy.

According to officials, the fire is believed to have been caused by a short circuit and broke out at around 11.20 pm in Neurosurgery ICU 1. At the time, there were 11 patients in the ICU, and the ward filled with thick smoke from the fire, witnesses said. Officials said the patients in the ICU where the fire broke out were moved to other ICUs within the trauma centre, but six people lost their lives.

Before he was removed from his post, Dr Anurag Dakhad said, “Six people, two women and four men, died. Five are undergoing treatment. Fourteen other patients were admitted in a different ICU, and all were successfully evacuated to safer locations.”

Authorities identified the dead as Pintu, Dilip, Shrinath, Rukmini, Khushma, and Bahadur.

SMS Hospital’s Trauma and Orthopaedic Institute has 46 beds across four ICUs — they were all occupied — and six general wards, where approximately 250 patients are admitted. The facility also has eight operating rooms, where 40–50 surgeries are performed daily.

Nursing staff at the hospital claimed that no mock fire drill had been conducted at the hospital in a long time and that they had not received training to deal with these kinds of situations.

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