Thursday, December 15, 2011

Are Indian hospitals safe?


Indian governments, both central and state always have a bad habit of not acting before its too late, this time its government of West Bengal. The fire in AMRI hospital which killed nearly 90 people has woke up the government of West Bengal. Now West Bengal is running all the corners to check the safety norms in all the hospitals in Kolkata. The main reason for death in AMRI was using underground parking slot to store combustible items. Also the hospital did not have fire extinguishers which are in working condition and fire exists were not present in the building. Safety norms were not at all followed in the hospital. With this accident, all the hospitals are raised in the city to ensure that this accident is not repeated. Government of West Bengal also announced a compensation plan for those who died in the fire accident. What will money do? Can it bring the dead people back to life? Not only in West Bengal there are many hospitals in the country which are running without proper facility to tackle fire accidents. Atleast after this accident the government should wake up and ensure that no such accident is repeated again.

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