Major Pakistani hospitals lack fire safety equipment

Public sector hospitals in Karachi require safety equipments and other rescue measures


The major public sector hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan, require safety equipments and other rescue measures, according to an article on the Pakistan Today website.

All major public sector hospitals of the city urgently require safety equipments and other rescue measures to protect medical staff and diagnostics equipments in emergency-like situation.

Hospital officials admitted that almost all the government hospitals lack basic fire safety equipments. The hospitals administration installed fire safety equipments on several occasions, but later they were removed for unknown reasons, the article said. 

Leaders of the Pakistan Medical Association said that fire incidents had become common in public and private sector hospitals due to non-implementation of fire safety measures.

Read the article.

 

 



February 25, 2015


Topic Area: Safety


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