Fire breaks out in Thane hospital's ICU; no casualty

Thane, Jun 25 (PTI) A fire broke out in the ICU ward of a private hospital in Maharashtra's Thane city on Wednesday morning, civic officials said.

No one was injured in the "minor" blaze which erupted at 10.37 am in the two-storey hospital located in Rutu Park, Thane Municipal Corporation's disaster management cell chief Yasin Tadvi said.

A ventilator in the hospital's Intensive Care Unit (ICU) caught fire, the official said, adding that it was not immediately known what triggered the blaze.

A total of six patients were admitted in the hospital at the time of the incident. One of them, aged 66, was in the ICU ward and was shifted to a safer location immediately after the fire, he said.

The other patients in the general ward were also safe, Tadvi said.

After being alerted, local fire personnel and the regional disaster management cell team rushed to the spot and doused the blaze in less than an hour, he said.

The cause of the fire was under investigation, the official said. PTI COR GK