Papanikolaou Hospital: And a second dead from the fire

One of the injured from the big fire that broke out yesterday at the Covid clinic of the Papanikolaou hospital in Thessaloniki ended a while ago, with the number of dead now amounting to two.

"The patient was intubated, he ended up this morning and this is the one from whom the fire allegedly started," the Director of the Pulmonary Clinic of the Hospital, Stavros Tryfon, recently told SKAI.

He stressed that, according to what the patient himself managed to convey to him, the fire started when the mobile phone he was holding in his hands exploded.

He clarified, however, that this is the version of the patients, while the exact causes of the fire remain to be confirmed by the fire brigade.

The testimonies of hospital staff are shocking
A real nightmare was lived yesterday, the patients who were treated in the pulmonology clinic Covid-19 of the "Papanikolaou" hospital in Thessaloniki, when shortly after 9 in the morning on Wednesday, a fire broke out in the wing.

The fire resulted in the death of two people.

How the fire broke out

According to the testimonies so far and the information available to the Fire Department, the fire broke out in ward 6 of the second floor where only one patient was being treated.

The director of the ward said that the patient himself started the fire, as a result of which the oxygen ignited and the fire quickly spread.

As the local media voria.gr then pointed out, the patient seems to have lit a cigarette in the ward, with the result that the fire broke out immediately. However, it is being investigated that the fire also broke out due to a cell phone explosion.

Firefighters said the fire broke out in linen and plastic, which is why it spread so quickly.

Source: in.gr