Only three private hospitals out of 300 submit fire NOC in Indore district

Indore: Even after two notices to private hospitals in the last ten days for submitting fire NOC details, only three has furnished it to health authorities in the district.

In the district, there are over 300 private hospitals and nursing homes. CMHO Dr BS Saitya said, "Three hospitals have provided details of fire NOC till Saturday (August 13)."

"The information of non-compliance of private hospital is shared with State health officials. They have asked to wait for next three weeks", said Dr Saitya.

"If the hospitals don't provide details, their registration will be cancelled", claimed Dr Saitya.

The private hospitals in Indore were issued directions on August 2 post Jabalpur hospital fire incident to submit details of fire NOC in three days.

The private facilities however opted otherwise forcing health authorities to issue another notice on August 6.

The fire NOC, electricity audit and building permission of hospitals again came to light as around eight persons were killed in a hospital in Jabalpur fire incident.

The state authorities swung into action for damage control with district authorities issuing notices, cancelling permission.

Interestingly, the health authorities of the district aren't aware about details of hospitals requiring fire safety NOC.

Last year in November, around 128 private hospitals were audited for fire safety measures and over 100 were found lacking facilities.

In district, around 25 hospitals will require renewal of registeration implying at present those have fire NOC.