Delhi children's hospital fire: Saurabh Bharadwaj seeks 'immediate enquiry' into accident which took lives of 7 babies

After a fire accident at a children's hospital in Delhi's Vivek Vihar took lives of as many as seven new born babies, health minister Saurabh Bharadwaj has sought speedy enquiry into the incident.

In a letter to the the Chief secretrary, the AAP leader has also asked to provide the names and designations of officers or private people responsible for this negligence.

"I have tried calling Secretary(Health) multiple times and left him many wattsapp messages but he has not responded yet. Therefore, I visited the incident spot alone. As I am not able to communicate with Secretary(Health) who heads the Department of Health, I am sending this note with a copy to Chief Secretary so that quick enquiry can be launched in this matter," Office of the minister said.


Bharadwaj has also directed them to ensure free treatment of rescued children in the best private hospitals (under the Farishtey scheme).

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Moreover, directions have been issued for speedy compensation to the families of deceased and injured.

The officials have also been asked to expedite the arrests of those who were running this Centre.

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It is to be noted that the police had earlier informed that legal action is being taken against the owner of the hospital namely Naveen Kichi.

Around 12 children were rescued from the incident site where one was already dead before the fire call was made.

Atul Garg, Director of Delhi Fire Department told ANI that the operation was very tough as there was a blast of cylinders.

"It was a very tough operation. We made two teams. One team started firefighting because there was a blast of cylinders, we can say the chain of blast of cylinders. So we had to save ourselves also. We started rescue operations for babies as well. Unfortunately, we could not save all the children. We removed all the twelve babies from the hospital. But after arrival, they declared that 6 were dead. That is a regrettable incident," Garg said.