Overview

• At 5:15 p.m. Thursday, a blaze erupted on the fourth floor of AIIMS’s Mother and Child Block, triggering an emergency call to the Delhi Fire Services Ten fire tenders were dispatched immediately and officials say firefighting operations remain under way
• No casualties have been reported; patients and staff were safely evacuated and critical services have continued uninterrupted
• AIIMS administration confirmed that unaffected departments have resumed routine care as firefighters work to fully extinguish the fire
• The incident follows a July transformer explosion near the hospital’s trauma centre that led to a formal probe into electrical infrastructure stability