BJP MLC Chitra Wagh addressing media after her visit to the district women’s hospital in Amravati on Saturday
“A police investigation is essential to fix responsibility for the death of three newborns and to establish whether a fire audit was actually conducted, what its findings were, and what action was taken,” she said. Amravati : BJP state Mahila Morcha Ppesident Chitra Wagh has demanded a police inquiry into conflicting claims by the district civil surgeon and PWD officials over the fire audit of the District Women’s Hospital, where three newborns died in a fire in the SNCU last Monday.
Wagh said civil surgeon Dr Vinod Pawar told her that the hospital had written to the PWD for a fire audit on June 25, 2026.
The hospital administration, however, maintains no PWD team ever came for a fire audit, Wagh said. The facts must come out through a police investigation,” she said. Wagh said the PWD is citing the signature of a junior clerk, Sanap, as proof of its visit. “Can a junior clerk certify a fire audit of a 400-bed hospital?” she asked. She added that when she contacted the PWD chief engineer, she was first told personnel had visited for a fire audit, but later the visit was described as being for repair work.
“Either the civil surgeon is telling the truth or the PWD engineer is. She also questioned why the fire alarm and sprinkler system failed to function if, as claimed, the safety system was fully operational. She sought a probe into allegations that the alarm was switched off as it was repeatedly sounding, and who ordered the sprinkler system to be shut.