{"id":307183,"date":"2018-12-18T07:36:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T07:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307183"},"modified":"2018-12-18T07:36:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T07:36:45","slug":"death-toll-rises-to-8-in-mumbai-hospital-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/death-toll-rises-to-8-in-mumbai-hospital-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll rises to 8 in Mumbai hospital fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/mumbai-fire-breaks-out-at-hospital-in-andheri\/fire-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307147\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307147 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/fire-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/fire-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/fire-485x306.jpg 485w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/fire.jpg 486w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a>The death toll in the fire at the government-run ESIC Kamgar hospital in Mumbai\u2019s Andheri on Tuesday rose to eight, with two more persons succumbing to injuries overnight, civic officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">A six-month-old baby girl was among the deceased.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to officials of Disaster Management Unit of BMC &#8220;176 persons, including three firemen, are now being treated in city hospitals, more than 25 are in critical condition while 26 have been discharged after primary treatment.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Monday, level four fire, which is defined as a major incident, was reported from the (ESIC) Hospital. Fire officials have blamed the hospital for not ensuring a fire audit.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll in the fire at the government-run ESIC Kamgar hospital in Mumbai\u2019s Andheri on Tuesday rose to eight, with two more persons succumbing to injuries overnight, civic officials said. A six-month-old baby girl was among the deceased. According to officials of Disaster Management Unit of BMC &#8220;176 persons, including three firemen, are now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[3261,10314,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307184,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307183\/revisions\/307184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}