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Tight security measures may account for high death toll in fire
Healthcare Security Weekly, December 18, 2006
Forty-six people died as a result of a December 9 fire at a Moscow hospital-the deadliest fire in the Russian capital in decades, reported the Associated Press.
Patients blamed tight security measures-meant to keep patients in the facility-for the high number of deaths. Officials continued investigating the case of the fire at the five-story hospital and drug rehabilitation clinic.
After fire erupted in a wooden cabinet in a kitchen at one end of a second-floor corridor, Russian fire inspectors said the main exit was blocked by a locked gate that staff members could not open in time, and the only other way out was cut off by smoke.
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