Amravati hospital fire: Saw infants covered in black ash, recalls parent
Charred remains of medical equipment after a fire in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of a government hospital killed at least three newborns, in Amravati district, Maharashtra, on August 24, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI When parents and families of infants were fast asleep outside a government hospital in Maharashtra’s Amravati, waiting for the children’s recovery, they never imagined the night would turn into horror. A huge fire ripped through the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the District Women’s Hospital, leaving some newborns covered in black ashes, as panic spread through the wards, eyewitnesses told PTI Videos. Security guards and nurses rushed in to rescue children from the smoke‑filled care units, some parents recalled, even as they blamed the hospital administration for the incident. Relatives of some children admitted to the hospital also claimed that the ward’s water spray system failed to function and said it should have been activated immediately when the fire broke out. Tragedy struck the hospital’s NICU, where premature, low-weight and critically ill newborns were undergoing treatment, at around …
