A fire broke out on Sunday evening at the Guadeloupe University Hospital, we learned from reliable sources, leading to the evacuation of the emergency department.
“A trash fire”
broke out
“in a room”
on the first floor of the university hospital located in Pointe-à-Pitre, indicated the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service (Sdis) of Guadeloupe.
The fire was
“extinguished before the arrival of emergency services”
but caused the evacuation of
“around thirty patients”
from the emergency department, according to the CHU communications department. The patients were then
“transported to the former CHU self-service facility”
, transformed into a resuscitation room during the Covid-19 epidemic, added the same source.
A photo from Sdis Guadeloupe shows around twenty patients lying on stretchers and medical staff grouped together in a CHU parking lot. “
Staff
and (the) patients will be able to return to the premises as soon as possible
,” the prefecture said in a press release. The fire broke out
“in a technical room on the first floor of the university hospital”
, according to the same source.
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It was in this area that a fire of the same type broke out in November 2017, in a technical room of the CHU, causing the evacuation of the entire hospital, and lastingly disrupting the provision of care. of the archipelago. A new university hospital under construction must be delivered in the third quarter of 2024.