Updated On: 07 November, 2021 01:41 PM IST | Pune | PTI
The blaze erupted around 11 am in the ICU ward where 17 Covid-19 patients, many of them senior citizens and some on ventilator or oxygen, were undergoing treatment. The ward had been added to the hospital after the pandemic began

Charred remains at the ICU of Civil Hospital after a fire broke out, in Ahmednagar. Pic/ PTI
Family members of the 11 Covid-19 patients, who died after a fire broke out at a hospital in Ahmednagar, are in a state of shock and yet to come to terms with the reality that their loved ones, whom they had admitted to the medical facility with the hope of recovery, will now never come back home.
Some of them have been inconsolable as they could not even have a last glimpse of their dead relatives in the wake of the Covid-19 protocols.