A four-member probe body has been formed over the fire at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital.
The committee has been asked to submit its reports within the next three working days.
The committee was formed soon after the fire broke out in a store room on the first floor, of a new building at the hospital, around 6pm on Thursday.
The probe committee will submit its report within the next three working days, Fire Service’s Central Control Room Duty Officer Md Russell Shikdar said on Friday.
Sixteen units of firefighters doused the fire around 11pm last night; after five hours battling the blaze.
As the firefighters brought the fire under control, no one—patients, doctors, employees, or attendants—was hurt in the incident, director of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital Prof Uttam Kumar Barua told reporters at the hospital, yesterday.
According to the Fire Service and Civil Defence, there were no casualties in the fire as all patients had been taken to safer places and patients of the emergency department were moved to nearby hospitals.
Fire Service and Civil Defence Director General Brigadier General Ali Ahmed Khan told reporters that they were able to evacuate the patients safely.
Earlier, Health Minister Zahid Maleque and State Minister for Health Murad Hasan rushed to the hospital to oversee the overall situation.