3 min readGurgaonUpdated: Feb 19, 2026 11:45 AM IST
After a massive fire at two steel and lubricants units in Faridabad’s Sector 24 on Monday left at least 37 people injured, most of the victims — including three policemen — were initially treated at emergency wards of Badshah Khan Civil Hospital there before being referred to different private hospitals, including AIIMS in Delhi. Why? It has come to the fore that Faridabad and Gurgaon do not have dedicated and permanent burn wards at the district civil hospitals.
Faridabad and Gurgaon manage such cases by either setting up beds within the emergency wards of hospitals or “seasonal” wards.
“In Gurgaon, to prepare for possible cases of burns during Diwali, a seasonal burn ward is set up at Sector Civil Hospital (Basai) with 5-10 beds arranged within the emergency wards. Serious cases (over 20% burns) are referred to Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospital. No private institute here too has a dedicated ward for serious burns,” a senior doctor, who was part of Gurgaon health department, told The Indian Express.
The senior doctor added that during her tenure, any proposal to set up such wards was neither presented nor pending before the state government.
Top private hospitals in the Millennium City, like Fortis and Millennium, offer advanced emergency and trauma care services which cater to minor to moderate burn patients, but they too do not have dedicated burn units, representatives said.
City resident Kusum Sharma, who is also the chairperson of Suncity Residents Welfare Association, said she has raised the issue multiple times, but to no avail. “Last year and earlier this year, I had on the CM Window portal filed complaints on the lack of burn wards…but both were termed as suggestions and closed. Why should residents be forced to go to Delhi?” she said.
Sharma said she would be raising the matter again with the District Deputy Commissioner Thursday at a meeting of the Samadhan Shivir.
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Faridabad Chief Medical Officer and civil surgeon Dr Jayant Ahuja, meanwhile, admitted that awareness on the necessity of burn wards needs to increase in the district. “Here we set aside some beds in the emergency and ICU wards for the same…Three are currently admitted here, while others were taken to Fortis Escorts where burn patients were allotted beds in trauma care units. I have corresponded with the government multiple times for expansion of facilities at Badshah Khan and include a dedicated trauma care wing here and the medical colleges in the district, so as to have at least 100 (dedicated) beds for burn patients.”
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