By IANS,
Kolkata : Amid fears of radiation hazard from the equipment used in the cancer department at AMRI hospital after a major fire, a team of National Disaster Response Force Friday visited the oncology wing and said later there was no radiation leak.
Wearing gas masks and carrying sophisticated anti-radiation equipment, the NDRF team went to the hospital but said there was no leakage.
“There is no excess radiation and no leakage,” said the team commander Mukesh Kumar Verma.
He said the members would carry out constant checks in turn till they were sure there was no chance of any radiation-linked problem.
The hospital’s well-known state-of-the-art cancer wing is in the basement of the ill-fated block where the fire started leading to the death of 73 people, including 70 patients, due to toxic carbon monoxide fumes.