<p>A <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/mumbai-short-circuit-causes-fire-in-bandra-restaurant-23398110" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>fire broke out</strong></a> in a medical store located in the premises of a private hospital in Sagar city of Madhya Pradesh on Monday evening, prompting an evacuation of patients by authorities, police and eyewitnesses said.</p>
<p>No one was injured in the blaze at Bhagyodaya Tirtha Hospital, which was subsequently brought under control, while people present in the premises ran to safety, police said.</p>
<p>The fire broke out at the medical store located in the hospital premises at around 6 pm, but its cause was not yet known, Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjeev Uike told reporters at the spot.</p>
<p>On receiving information about the blaze, senior officials of the district administration and police also reached the spot immediately, he said, adding a technical team will investigate the cause of the inferno.</p>
<p>Patients were evacuated from the hospital, eyewitnesses said, adding the fire might have been triggered due to a short-circuit in an air conditioner of an oxygen cylinder.</p>
<p>They said the flames were put out by around 8.30 pm.</p>
<p>Mukesh Jain Dhana, trustee of Bhagyodaya Tirtha Hospital, told PTI that the fire erupted in a room filled with empty cartons of medicines, other materials and attached to the medical store.</p>
<p>Medicines worth lakhs of rupees kept in the store were reduced to ashes, he informed.&nbsp;</p>
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