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A fire at a hospital’s trauma unit in Jaipur, India, resulted in at least six patient deaths and injured five others, officials reported Monday. The blaze originated in the intensive care unit (ICU) of Sawai Man Singh Hospital, India’s largest public hospital in the northwestern city of Jaipur. Hospital authorities said fumes from the fire released toxic gases. Anurag Dhakad, a hospital official, suggested that a short circuit was likely responsible.
Five patients remain in critical condition, while 13 patients were safely evacuated from the hospital’s two wards. The fire broke out late Sunday night in the neurosurgery ICU, prompting fire crews to arrive within 20 minutes. Most of the hospital’s equipment was destroyed during the roughly two-hour effort to extinguish the flames, according to NDTV.
Police chief Biju George Joseph announced that a forensic investigation would seek to identify the precise cause of the fire. The Rajasthan government has established a special panel to investigate the incident, focusing on the hospital’s fire safety protocols, emergency response, and measures to prevent future tragedies. Historically, similar hospital fires across India have often been linked to electrical short circuits in medical devices.
In recent years, India has seen tragic hospital fires, including a 2021 blaze in Uttar Pradesh that resulted in the deaths of ten newborns due to burns and suffocation, and a 2024 fire in New Delhi that claimed six infant lives at a neonatal care unit.
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