Smoke and scare: controversy over smoke at Kozhikode MCH building refuses to die down

The patients and caregivers of a recently built block of the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, had a providential escape last week as thick fumes engulfed the building after a suspected short-circuit. A.S. Jayanth meets some of the rescue workers and stakeholders to find out what went wrong in the public-sector hospital