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This Wednesday afternoon a fire broke out in the Electrophysiology room on the fifth floor of the Santo António Hospital in Oporto. This area of the hospital has no patients and as such it was not necessary to evacuate the area.
A short circuit in an instrument in the room may have caused the fire. The normal functioning of the health unit has not been altered.
The warning was given around 7:30 p.m., when the combustion of the cord of the device “recently acquired by the hospital caused the appearance of black smoke, and the emergency plan was activated promptly,” added the source who revealed that ” there are no injuries. ” Then, the source continued, the hospitalized patients in Cardiology were removed to the 6th floor, who waited “safely for the intervention of the firefighters” before “being taken back to their rooms, where they are already.”
In the place there were 20 operations of the Volunteer Firefighters and Firefighters of Porto supported by five vehicles, which quickly extinguished the fire, as well as the Municipal Police, which cut off access to that area of the hospital. The intervention of the firefighters, he said, “concluded at 9:00 pm,” a source from the hospital told the Lusa agency.
Currently there is a vehicle from the Volunteer Firefighters and another from the Porto Sapadores Firefighters. It is already circulating normally around the place.
According to a source from the CDOS, the fire was completely extinguished and the area of the hospital where it started was ventilated.
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