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Akankhya Rout

‘We carried patients down stairs’: Odisha ICU fire puts compliance under scrutiny

At least 11 patients were killed in the early hours of Monday after a fire broke out at the SCB Medical College and Hospital in Cuttack, Odisha. The blaze – suspected to have been triggered by an electrical short circuit – originated adjacent to the ICU, which was housing 23 patients at the time.

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