A fire that broke out at the basement of Central Hospital in the capital's Green Road area has been brought under control.
Mizanur Rahman, duty officer of the fire service control room, said the fire originated at the hospital around 1:30pm Thursday.
He said seven units of fire fighters rushed to the spot and brought the flame under control around 2:35pm.
A patient is being taken out of the hospital after it caught fire Photo: Syed Zakir Hossain
"We are assuming that the fire might have originated from electric short circuit," he said.
None was reportedly injured in the incident, he added.
Sujit Kumar, a doctor of the hospital, said the fire originated from a cylinder blast of an ambulance kept at the hospital's basement.
He said: "Patients were shifted to safer places after the fire broke out. Now they have been replaced to their respective wards."
