{"id":86484,"date":"2015-01-28T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T09:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=86484"},"modified":"2015-01-28T12:47:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T12:47:12","slug":"fire-guts-portions-of-tamale-teaching-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=86484","title":{"rendered":"Fire guts portions of Tamale Teaching Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fire has engulfed parts of the laboratory stores at the Tamale Teaching Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;NDtUhrOeTDpokQuv1Az9zwjrzCkJqAMX&#8221;]The fire which began around 8: 30am on Wednesday destroyed some\u00a0theater equipment and medicines.<\/p>\n<p>A swift response from the personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) brought the fire under control thereby preventing it from spreading to other parts of the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News&#8217;<\/strong> Northern Regional corespondent, Abdul Karim Naatogmah reported that the fire fighters who are currently at the scene say they are yet to establish the cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>The Deputy Regional Fire Commander, Douglas D. Koyiri told <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, his outfit had a distress call that there was a fire outbreak &#8220;so our men were quickly dispatched and they were here in five minutes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within 10 minutes, we were able to control the fire\u2026I will say the fire did not destroy any of the items; the fire just scourged the items.\u00a0It\u2019s a minimal damage,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/fire-at-tamale-teaching-hospital-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86517\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/fire-at-tamale-teaching-hospital-2.jpg\" alt=\"fire at tamale teaching hospital (2)\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the hospital workers are trying to tidy the place up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/fire-at-tamale-teaching-hospital-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86518\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/fire-at-tamale-teaching-hospital-3.jpg\" alt=\"fire at tamale teaching hospital (3)\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/fire-at-tamale-teaching-hospital-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86519\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/fire-at-tamale-teaching-hospital-4.jpg\" alt=\"fire at tamale teaching hospital (4)\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire has engulfed parts of the laboratory stores at the Tamale Teaching Hospital. 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A swift response from the personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) brought the fire under control thereby preventing it from spreading to other parts of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,54,43,38],"class_list":["post-86484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-chinese","tag-delta-force","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}