Fire Dept conducts mock drill at KMEH

The State Fire Services department on Saturday organised a mock drill at Kashyap Memorial Eye Hospital (KMEH), which the staff and employees of the hospital were given hands-on training about security and relief from fire, earthquake and other natural calamities.The mock drill was led by State Fire Officer Mahanand Singh and Fire services officer lakshman Prasad. Singh said that KMEH is one of the hospitals of the state that have got certificate from the fire department. The hospital has good facilities available for managing natural disasters and that is why a mock drill was very easy to conduct there.

Director of KMEH, Dr Bharti Kashyap said on the occasion that the hospital is an NABH accredited hospital and without excellent services it is impossible to get accreditation from top medical institutions. Expressing happiness over the issue she said that looking at the facilities available at KMEH, the hospital has received NABH accreditation for the third consecutive time that is valid till 2018. Fire department officials and staffs including Rishi Kumar Tiwari, Salim Ansari, Kuldeep Kumar pandey, Raja ram Mohanty, Raghuvanshi Kumar Singh, Sahzaad Ansari and Umesh Kumar Thakur played a vital role in making the mock drill a success.