Hospital Fire In Chhattisgarh

Doctors at a government hospital in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district on Saturday had to treat injured patients under phone's flashlights as there has been no power at the building for five days now following a fire caused by a short-circuit.

At least five Covid patientswere killed after a fire broke out in a hospital in Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur on Saturday, the police said.

Six personnel of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) were killed and two others injured in Chhattisgarh today after a colleague fired at them on Wednesday, the police said. The accused, a constable, then turned the gun on himself.

Three employees of the Bilaspur-based Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences or CIMS fainted due to smoke inhalation after a portion of the hospital caught fire on Tuesday, officials said.

Prafful Shukla lay under one of the cars caught in Saturday's deadly Naxal ambush and fired a steady stream of bullets back at the attackers. The Maoists, perched at a vantage point on hillocks, shot the tyres of the car and it came crashing down upon Mr Shukla, the personal security officer of senior Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla.

A Right To Information activist was fired at by unidentified men at his office in Raigarh district in Chhattisgarh today. Ramesh Agarwal, who is also an environmentalist, suffered two bullet injuries - one on his thigh and another on his hips. He was rushed to the district hospital where the bullets were removed from his body.

Even as Visakhapatnam has emerged as the health hub of the north coastal Andhra and neighbouring Odisha and Chhattisgarh, fire safety arrangements continue to be poor at a majority of the hospitals in the city, ringing alarm bells for the patients and their families.

Doctors at a government hospital in Chhattisgarh's Bastar district on Saturday had to treat injured patients under phone's flashlights as there has been no power at the building for five days now following a fire caused by a short-circuit.

At least five Covid patientswere killed after a fire broke out in a hospital in Chhattisgarh's capital Raipur on Saturday, the police said.

Six personnel of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) were killed and two others injured in Chhattisgarh today after a colleague fired at them on Wednesday, the police said. The accused, a constable, then turned the gun on himself.

Three employees of the Bilaspur-based Chhattisgarh Institute of Medical Sciences or CIMS fainted due to smoke inhalation after a portion of the hospital caught fire on Tuesday, officials said.

Prafful Shukla lay under one of the cars caught in Saturday's deadly Naxal ambush and fired a steady stream of bullets back at the attackers. The Maoists, perched at a vantage point on hillocks, shot the tyres of the car and it came crashing down upon Mr Shukla, the personal security officer of senior Congress leader Vidya Charan Shukla.

A Right To Information activist was fired at by unidentified men at his office in Raigarh district in Chhattisgarh today. Ramesh Agarwal, who is also an environmentalist, suffered two bullet injuries - one on his thigh and another on his hips. He was rushed to the district hospital where the bullets were removed from his body.

Even as Visakhapatnam has emerged as the health hub of the north coastal Andhra and neighbouring Odisha and Chhattisgarh, fire safety arrangements continue to be poor at a majority of the hospitals in the city, ringing alarm bells for the patients and their families.