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Disaster management had previously told MTI that a room had caught fire on the first floor of one of the wings of a building at Hatvan Hospital. Burned furniture and the fire also spread to the store below the pavilion window. Three rooms were evacuated during the works.
Telex knows that, according to primary investigations, the fire may have been caused by
a patient set fire to the ward.
According to the portal, three Covid positive patients were treated in the quad room, but no one was injured.
The hospital’s press relations officer said the fire occurred in one of the rooms in the part of the building reserved for coronavirus patients. Workers had to evacuate a 28-bed non-intensive Covid-19 supply unit.
He said the building’s ventilation and primary remediation are still ongoing, what has happened will not cause a lasting disruption in patient care and hospital operation.
Csaba County Disaster Management Spokesperson Nagy Heves responded to MTI’s question: After the alarm, 22 firefighters arrived at the scene with seven vehicles from Hatvan, Gyöngyös and Aszód, and the flames stopped in no time. The cause of the fire is still being investigated, he added.
Top image: The Albert Schweitzer Hospital building in Hatvan on the day of the energy upgrade delivery, June 3, 2020. Source: MTI / Péter Komka
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