Nearly 350 patients, some with COVID, evacuated after fire at Chile hospital
About 350 patients were evacuated Saturday following a fire that erupted at a hospital in Chile.
The fire, which began in a boiler room of Santiago’s San Borja Arriarán Hospital - one of the largest in Chile - might have been caused by an electrical short circuit, according to the capital’s metropolitan health agency, The Associated Press reports.
Urgent Medical Care workers and firefighters evacuate a COVID-19 patient from the San Borja Arriaran hospital in Santiago, Chile, Saturday where a fire broke out in a boiler room.
Some of the patients evacuated were hospitalized with coronavirus and were even hooked up to ventilators at the time.
No deaths nor injuries were reported as a result of the blaze, which firefighters said was contained Saturday morning.
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Smoke rises from today's massive fire at the San Borja Arriarán Hospital, just south of downtown Santiago and one of the country's largest.
The fire, which began in a boiler room, forced the evacuation of all 350 patients - and revived criticism of cuts to public health spending under the center-right Piñera administration.
