Twelve days after a fire broke out at All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), the emergency department of the AIIMS Trauma Centre will become operational from Saturday. A fire broke out in operation theatre of AIIMS Trauma Centre last month. However, responding it quickly, authorities shifted patients in other wards after detecting fire.
According to Dr Amit Lathwal, the additional superintendent of AIIMS, three of five operation theatres (OT) located on the ground floor damaged in the fire, have been renovated and will become functional from Saturday.
“The causality will reopen tomorrow. Also, the OT on the first floor that was made operational after the incident will be available for urgent and minor cases till all the OTs become operational,” he said.
Admission of patients to the emergency department of the AIIMS Trauma Centre here, the biggest such facility in the country, was suspended after a massive blaze on March 24 had damaged the operation theatres. Short circuit is said to be the reason behind the incident. The hospital administration had also ordered enquiry in this regard to identify the cause of fire and to suggest measures to avoid such incident in future.