2nd January, 2012
Several patients on admission were today, rushed out of Eko Hospital along Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way, Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria when fire was noticed on the third floor of the hospital.
A witness, Segun Abel told P.M.NEWS that he and other kind Nigerians assisted in evacuating the patients.
It was gathered that the fire was noticed at about 5 p.m. Sources claimed that the fire started from a faulty refrigerator and later spread to the air conditioner on the third floor.
Fire and safety services officials were yet to arrive at the scene of the fire when our correspondents visited the hospital but sympathisers and policemen from Area ‘Fâ€
A brother to Baale of Abule Onigbagbo, the community where the hospital is located, Mr. Olusegun Showande, blamed the management for not providing adequate fire safety equipment.
Residents of Abule Onigbagbo and the sympathisers had succeeded in putting out the fire at the time of filing this report.
— Yusuf Mohammed & Ayodeji Dedeigbo