Jhansi fire incident: Due to this decision of CM Yogi, report will not come even in 12 hours, what is the matter

New Delhi/Jhansi: Where on Friday night at least 10 infants died while 16 children were seriously burnt due to a fire in the children's ward of Maharani Lakshmibai Medical College in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh. Meanwhile, Chief Minister Yogi had directed Jhansi's Divisional Commissioner and Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) to submit a report regarding the incident within 12 hours.

But now news is coming that the investigation report of Jhansi fire incident will not come even after 12 hours. The reason for this is the three-tier investigation report, only after which this horrific incident will be revealed. The Yogi government has changed the committee in the middle of the investigation. In this regard, it was told that the inquiry committee constituted under the chairmanship of Jhansi Divisional Commissioner Vimal Kumar Dubey will not submit the report. In this regard, the government has now constituted an inquiry committee under the chairmanship of Director General of Medical and Health Department, Kinjal Singh. Now that committee will investigate the matter.

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Let us tell you that a massive fire broke out in the Special New Born Care Unit (SNCU) of Maharani Laxmibai Government Medical College last Friday night. 10 newborn children died in this horrific accident. Last Saturday evening, the postmortem of 7 children was done by a panel of 2 doctors each. All these children had suffered more than 80% burns. DNA samples of all of them have also been taken. However, the bodies of 3 children could not be identified, hence postmortem was not conducted. Whether identified or not, his postmortem will now take place only after 72 hours.

At the same time, 7 out of 8 children missing for 20 hours have been found. Only 1 child has not been found yet. Jhansi district administration released photographs of dead bodies of 10 children. Last Saturday, the state government provided financial assistance of Rs 5 lakh each to the parents of the deceased and Rs 50 thousand each to the families of the injured. It was reported that the incident occurred due to an electrical short circuit and he assured that strict action would be taken against those found guilty.

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However, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak had said on Saturday that all the fire fighting equipment in Jhansi Medical College are in good condition and the reports about their malfunctioning are baseless. His comments came after some media reports in the medical college fire that killed 10 children had said that the fire extinguishers at the health establishment were faulty and expired. Meanwhile, Dr Narendra Singh Sengar, Principal of Maharani Lakshmibai Medical College, Jhansi, had also termed the allegations of malfunctioning of fire extinguishers as “baseless”.
(with agency input)