This archive report was first published on 13 November 2019.
Published on November 13, 2019, a fire that ravaged the Mombasa Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya, has been contained.
According to Coast regional police boss Rashid Yakub, the inferno started in the hospital's kitchen after a gas cylinder exploded.
As the fire raged on, patients and hospital staff were forced to evacuate the premises, with some patients running out of the hospital after the blaze erupted at around 9pm.
One eyewitness, Dorcas Rottok, whose child was hospitalized at the facility, reported that the fire started in the children's wing.
'We were seated with my child when I heard the fire alarm, when I went out I saw huge smoke coming from a roof in the children's wing,' Ms Rottok said.
Coast Governor Joho, who was recently admitted to the hospital for malaria, was not in the hospital at the time of the fire.
Police commander Eliud Monari confirmed that some patients had been evacuated, and hospital equipment was removed from the facility as Mombasa County firefighters battled the blaze.
The cause of the fire is yet to be established, and an investigation is underway.
