Rajasthan hospital fireplace: 6 sufferers killed, kin allege workers ignored warnings

Six important sufferers have been killed in a fireplace on the trauma centre of the state-run Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Hospital in Jaipur late Sunday (October 5, 2025) evening, officers said.

Trauma centre in-charge Dr. Anurag Dhakad mentioned that 11 sufferers have been being handled within the Neuro ICU when the hearth erupted within the storage space. A suspected brief circuit is believed to have brought about the blaze, he added.

The deceased have been recognized as Pintu (from Sikar), Dilip (from Andhi, Jaipur), Shrinath, Rukmini, Khurma (all from Bharatpur) and Bahadur (from Sanganer, Jaipur), officers said.

“Six of them, two women and four men, died in the incident,” Dr. Dhakad mentioned. “Fourteen other patients were admitted in a different ICU, and all were successfully evacuated to safer locations,” he added.

The fireplace created chaos within the constructing, with smoke quickly spreading all through the ground and inflicting panic amongst sufferers and their households.

Various paperwork, ICU gear, blood pattern tubes, and different objects saved within the space have been gutted by the hearth.

Hospital workers and affected person attendants evacuated sufferers, even transporting them with their beds outdoors the constructing. Firefighters arrived shortly after being alerted and introduced the hearth beneath management in roughly two hours.

When the hearth staff arrived, your complete ward was engulfed in smoke. The firefighters needed to break a window on the alternative facet of the constructing to begin extinguishing the hearth.

Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Jogaram Patel and Minister of State for Home Jawahar Singh Bedham visited the trauma centre to take inventory of the state of affairs.

When Patel and Bedham initially arrived, the attendants of two sufferers expressed their anguish, alleging that the workers fled in the course of the fireplace. They additionally claimed that the hospital workers couldn’t present updates on their sufferers’ situations.

“We noticed smoke and immediately informed the staff, but they did not pay any heed. When the fire broke out, they were the first to run. Now, we cannot get any information about our patients. We want to know their condition, but no one is telling us,” one attendee mentioned.

Later, the Chief Minister additionally arrived on the scene and spoke to the docs and sufferers.