Few hospitals stick to fire safety rules: DG Fire Services

Few hospitals in the metropolis, whether government or private, adhere to fire safety norms, the lack of which claimed 93 lives at the AMRI Hospital on December nine.

"No government hospital in the city has fire safety clearance," Director General of West Bengal Fire Services Gopal Bhattacharya told PTI here. "We have been repeatedly telling the hospital authorities to adhere to fire safety norms and obtain no objection certificate, but nothing has so far happened," Bhattacharya said.

The situation was no different in the case of private hospitals with some obtaining one time no objection certificates and others having merely applied for them, he said.