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Police extracurricular the NICU ward of the infirmary successful Jhansi. (Express photograph by Vishal Srivastav)
In presumption of the Jhansi infirmary fire, Union Health Secretary Puniya Salila Srivastava has written to states to urgently undertake evaluations of hospitals to cheque whether they person functional fire-fighting systems. He has asked them to cheque whether the systems are regularly maintained and tested, whether electrical load is audited, whether oxygen tanks are stored safely among others.
The states person been asked to reappraisal and update occurrence prevention and effect plans, behaviour regular information drills, and instal optimum occurrence detection and supression systms.
The states person besides been asked to represent territory levels committees headed by the territory collections to undertake carnal inspection of each wellness facilities.
The missive highlights 3 cardinal issues: One, astir fires are attributable to electrical issues. Two, a deficiency of centralised database of each wellness facilities. Three, non implementation of objective constitution enactment by respective states that provides proviso for cancellation of registration of wellness facilities.
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