Here here two really disturbing post-incident news on the AMRI Kolkata fire.
One talks about the AMRI authorities reluctance in calling the fire fighters in the fateful night of the fire and the other is about tracing a missing dead after 12 days.
Here they go:
AMRI didn't call fire brigade to save skin
Subhro Niyogi, TNN | Dec 18, 2011, 04.11AM IST
(http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/AMRI-didnt-call-fire-brigade-to-save-skin/articleshow/11150494.cms)
KOLKATA: The staff at south Kolkata's AMRI Hospital had tried to douse the December 9 fire that killed 92 people, for more than an hour before a patient's relative called the fire brigade.
"No one called from the hospital that day," said West Bengal Fire Services additional director-general Debapriya Biswas. The management at the upscale hospital was averse to calling the fire brigade as they seemed to fear the consequences after the fire was put out. Two months ago, a security guard Haradhan Chakraborty was suspended for a fortnight for calling fire brigade.
"After a fire brigade attends to a fire, there is a preliminary probe and a report is filed. The report puts irregularities on record. The hospital was already on notice for altering the use of basement and stocking hazardous materials. If these were mentioned in the report, a closure order would be issued," said a hospital employee. Former fire services director Baren Sen agreed that could be a reason for not calling the fire brigade. If there is a fire in a hospital, a station officer leads the team and then files a report.
"Even if the fire is controlled swiftly and there is no loss of life, the report would be filed within an hour. If inflammable goods were found in the basement, an FIR would be filed. The hospital's false commitment to the fire brigade in August to clear the basement would have been exposed leading to action, including closure," Sen said. The hospital may have hoped it could get away with violation of rules if the fire brigade was kept out.
AMRI fire: Tripura man's body found after 12 days
Published: Thursday, Dec 22, 2011, 14:16 IST
Place: Agartala | Agency: IANS
(http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_amri-fire-tripura-man-s-body-found-after-12-days_1628849)
The mutilated body of a Tripura man, who went missing after the AMRI Hospital fire Dec 9, has been found at the morgue of SSKM Hospital in Kolkata, officials said Thursday.
Santosh Das, 25, had fractured his left leg in an accident in Tripura Nov 30 and was subsequently taken to Kolkata for treatment.
“The burnt, mutilated body of Santosh was found by his relatives on Wednesday night,” Tripura Bhavan resident commissioner in Kolkata Ashudeb Das told IANS by phone.
The man's parents, distraught since the sole bread earner of the family went missing, broke down after getting the news.
Santosh was admitted to the AMRI Hospital Dec 1.
“I met (West Bengal Chief Minister) Mamata Banerjee, several police officers, searched 21 hospitals and some morgues, but could not find my brother till Tuesday night,” Santosh’s younger brother Paritosh told IANS by phone from Kolkata.
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar, in a recent letter to Banerjee, urged her to help trace Santosh.
With Santosh's body found, the toll from Tripura in the Kolkata hospital fire rose to seven.
In the worst fire tragedy ever in any hospital in India, 94 people were killed in AMRI Hospital.
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