Death toll at 30 in fire at Russian psychiatric hospital

Written By kolimtiga on Jumat, 13 September 2013 | 23.50

MOSCOW -- A fire that raged early morning Friday through an aging wing of a psychiatric hospital in Russia's Novgorod region killed 29 patients and a nurse, with seven patients still missing and presumed dead, officials said.

Among the dead was nurse Yulia Anufriyeva, who called the fire brigade and saved several patients before perishing in the blaze, regional Gov. Sergei Mitin said, adding that she would be awarded a state medal.

A roof of the partially wooden structure caved during the blaze and the remains of more patients could still be among the debris, Tatiana Timofeyeva, the administration chief of the neighboring village of Verebye, said in a telephone interview.

"Firemen and residents of local villages who arrived at the fire scene shortly after it started did their best but couldn't save all the patients," Timofeyeva said. "Most patients in this wing were so sick, they couldn't leave their beds on their own, so when help arrived it was too late for them.

"The wing was one of the oldest in our district, built in 1875 as part of a local landlord's estate," she said, adding that in Soviet times the building was used as an orphanage and then as part of the Oksochi mental hospital.

Rossiya-24, a state-owned news television network, carried footage showing dozens of firemen pouring water onto a two-floor dilapidated building that had lost many of its windows and part of its roof.

The building, about 320 miles northwest of Moscow, was surrounded by a dense forest, which police searched in case some patients had run away. No one was found, the network said.

The fire was reported about 3 a.m., with firefighters arrived minutes later. Of 60 male patients who lived in the wing, 23 were safely evacuated and three with injuries were taken to a local hospital.

A patient smoking in his bed could have caused the fire, which spread rapidly, Mitin said.

"Seriously sick, incapacitated patients are treated in this hospital," Mitin told Interfax news service. "A nurses saw a patient all on fire in Ward No. 2. He must have smoked in bed, and cotton wool in his mattress must have caught fire."

The building was found to be fire-prone and unfit this year, said Yuri Deshevykh, oversight department chief for the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry.

"The burned wing was found unfit for safe use and Emergency Situations Ministry officials filed a lawsuit demanding the wing be closed down," Deshevykh said. "A court gave the hospital until Aug. 1, 2014, to correct the irregularities."

President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to the families of the dead and wished the survivors a speedy recovery, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Friday.

Russia has had several recent fires in hospitals and social institutions that led to tragedy.

In April, 38 patients died in a nighttime fire at a mental hospital in Moscow region last April. In 2010, nine people died in the fire at a senior center in the Tver Region, while 11 people perished in the fire in a home of disabled in the Samara region the same year.

In the worst fire in recent years, 63 people died in a senior center in the Krasnodar region in 2007.

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