2017News

Fire at Marcelino Velez hospital leads to evacuation

Patients from the Intensive Care Unit at the Marcelino Vélez Santana Hospital were evacuated on the morning of Wednesday, 13 December 2017 when a fan caught on fire in the hospital pharmacy and the smoke reached the ICU.

The patients were moved the Cardio Neuro-Opthamology and Transplant Center (Cecanot) and the National Police Hospital. The situation was then controlled and is back to normal.

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14 December 2017