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Soldiers help JB hospital staff clean up fire-affected wards

Staff of Sultanah Aminah Hospital (HSA) were busy this morning cleaning up the mess left by the fire at the hospital's Intensive Care Unit yesterday in which six patients died.

The clean-up operation at the wards and surrounding areas was assisted by soldiers from the Malaysia 7th Infantry Brigade based at the Tebrau Camp, who arrived as early as 8am.

At the compound of the hospital's main building, a briefing was given by the hospital on the cleaning-up work to be done at the affected wards.

The fire at the ICU wards, located on the second floor of the five-storey building took the lives of six patients undergoing treatment there, while another patient was saved.

Johor Baru City mayor A. Rahim Nin who was visiting the hospital, was seen listening to the briefing given by hospital officials on the fire that occurred just before 9am yesterday.

Meanwhile at Sultan Ismail Hospital (HSI), Permaisuri Johor Raja Zarith Sofiah Almarhum Sultan Idris visited HSA patients who were transferred to HSI yesterday.

State Health and Environment Conmmittee chairperson Ayub Rahmat had last night said that 48 HSA patients and three staff who were injured in the fire were sent to HSI.

The operation to put out the fire and save patients at HSA, which ended at 1.30pm yesterday, involved 160 Fire and Rescue Department personnel.

- Bernama

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