FIRE IN ALAPPUZHA MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL

FIRE IN 

ALAPPUZHA MEDICAL COLLEGE HOSPITAL

A major disaster was averted in the Alappuzha Medical College Hospital after a gas leak led to a fire in the pathology lab on the second floor of the J-Block there on Sunday15th January, 2012. According to eye-witnesses, a gas cylinder leak led to the fire and because the staff managed to take out other gas cylinders and since the leaking cylinder had only little gas left in it, a major disaster was averted. Fire and rescue personnel managed to douse the fire in half an hour, by which time however, equipment worth around Rs.2 lakh was gutted.

                                                        Prof. John Kurakar