Patients evacuated due to fire at Papar Hospital pharmacy storage


JBPM Sabah picture.

KOTA KINABALU: A building containing a pharmaceutical storage unit at Papar Hospital was destroyed in a fire, while a laboratory sustained only minor heat damage in an incident on Monday (Nov 11) night.

The Sabah Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) Operations Centre, in a statement, reported that the MERS 999 call centre received an emergency call at 7.02pm.

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