A patient's desire to smoke a bidi led to a fire in the intensive care unit of a hopsital in Gujarat's Jamnagar. As per reports, the patient who lit the bidi was on oxygen support and was unaware of the deadly consequences of lighting a flame in the presence of the flammable apparatus that was next to him.
It was further reported that the patient suffered burn injuries after his oxygen mask caught fire.
The hospital staff took immediate action to stop the spread of the fire and extinguished it in time.
The patient was diagnosed and treated for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD) and was allegedly addicted to smoking.
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