Delhi Hospital Fire: Families are struggling to identify their children who died after a massive fire broke out at the New Born Baby Care Hospital in East Delhi’s Vivek Vihar on Saturday (May 25) night.
One man, whose 11-day-old daughter died in the massive fire said, “Allah ko pyaari ho gayi meri beti (my daughter is with the almighty now). My daughter was born on May 15 at another hospital. They asked us to keep her in the childcare hospital for 72 hours for observation. After that, we admitted her to the childcare hospital, where she had been for the last 10 days. My friends called and told me that there was a blast at the childcare hospital in Delhi where my daughter was. When I found out and came here, I learned that my daughter had passed away.”
The mother of Ruhi, a 17-day-old baby who was admitted to the hospital two days ago due to a fever, said, “Yesterday I met my baby, and this morning, we received information about the fire. Since then, we have been trying to find out about her. We admitted her to this hospital to improve her health but we didn’t know that this hospital would take away our only child. They removed all her necklaces, including her ‘Najar ki mala’ (amulet). When they took her in, she was just wearing a diaper.”
Masialam, a labourer said, “I have lost my newborn son. What kind of facilities do they have? You can ask the parents who have sold their jewellery or took money on interest for the treatment of their kids. I am a labourer and after finding out that the child, who was born in Manglam Hospital, had an infection, we admitted him to this hospital. I have a three-year-old daughter and lost a son around five years back.”
Parvinder Kumar, the relative of another fire victim, said, “We have not even informed the mother yet. This was the first child of my relative, Pawan Kumar. We have no idea how the incident unfolded. The girl was born around six days ago at a hospital in Ghaziabad and was admitted to the care centre the same day.”
Hritik Chaudhary, whose newborn son also died in the fire, said that every single official who is visiting the hospital is tight-lipped. They have no answer if the hospital was legal, or whether the hospital had an NOC from the fire department.
Chaudhary’s cousin, Robin said that nobody informed them about the incident and they came to the spot after watching the news.
The confusion and lack of information left many families in despair when they reached the hospital.
(With PTI inputs)
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