HC Orders Compensation to Families of United Hospital Fire Victims

The High Court has ordered the United Hospital to pay four families Tk 3 million each in 15 days as compensation for a deadly fire that killed five patients in May. 

Justice M Enayetur Rahim issued the order on Wednesday, responding to three writ petitions from the families of the victims.

The fire burned down a tent-like isolation unit for COVID-19 patients and killed five patients at the United Hospital in Dhaka on May 27.

The lighting rapidly swept through the building because the products used for construction and the hand sanitizers stored inside were inflammable, the police said.