It is possible that the fire in Cartagena Hospital was caused by poor extinguishing of a cigarette butt, according to the first hypotheses.

Murcia government spokesman Marcos Ortuño pointed this out “Everything points, in this case, to a poorly extinguished cigarette butt.” It may have been caused by the fire that occurred on Wednesday in Building 5 of the Santa Lucia Hospital in Cartagena.

Ortonio has … He asked to wait for the investigations and police reports to be completed “to know the origin or cause of that fire.” On the other hand, Counselor A. explained: Comprehensive construction report As a result of the technical considerations gathered, the regional government “will take appropriate decisions and measures and implement the necessary actions to further improve and enhance the safety of patients and health workers.” He added that these measures “will be implemented because this is specified in a technical report, and not because a political group requested it.”

Ortonio insisted that “All buildings in the complex comply with regulations and are subject to periodic inspection To ensure the availability of the necessary security conditions for them.

Finally, he also announced that the Ministry of Health would implement a new awareness campaign to prevent smoking in hospital environments, although he stressed that he did not know “whether that would be enough or if something else could be done.”