As the head of the country's Ministry of Health, Maxim Stepanov, said on his Facebook page, he had already flown to the scene.
“Four people died in a fire on the territory of the second regional infectious diseases hospital in the city of Zaporozhye.
Two more people were injured and seven were evacuated - next to them are relatives and doctors ... Now I am urgently flying to Zaporozhye in order to establish the actual circumstances of the tragedy, ”the minister wrote.
According to him, law enforcement agencies are already investigating the reasons for the fire in the case.
On January 21, a fire broke out in Kharkov in a two-story residential building, converted into a nursing home. As a result, 16 people died.