Firefighters prevent sterilization equipment from catching fire at the América Arias Maternal Hospital

The actions of the firefighters prevented on Monday a sterilization team from the Materno América Arias Hospital in Havana from after overheating occurred on the second floor of the facility.

The incident was reported by Roilán Rodríguez Barbán, the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the Plaza de la Revolución municipality, who noted that the intervention allowed for ventilation of the area and prevented the smoke from spreading to other parts of the hospital.

The quick action of our firefighters prevented the sterilization equipment from catching fire, on the second floor of the 'América Arias' Maternity Hospital, successfully ventilating the area in a timely manner and preventing the smoke from spreading due to overheating, wrote Rodríguez Barbán.

The leader also reported that authorities from the Plaza de la Revolución Defense Council and the La Rampa area promptly visited the health center.

The publication does not specify what caused the overheating nor does it report any damage to the equipment. It also does not mention any injuries, evacuations, or disruptions to hospital services.

This incident occurs just over a week after a fire affected areas of the Arnaldo Milián Castro Provincial Clinical Surgical Hospital, in Santa Clara.

The fire was extinguished before spreading to other areas of the center, and no fatalities or injuries were reported.

Another incident involving sterilization equipment occurred in Camagüey last August when a drier oven at the Sterilization Center of the Eduardo Agramonte Piña Pediatric Hospital caught fire.

According to the report that was released at the time, the thermostat had not stopped the operation of the equipment, and the flames had to be extinguished initially with dirt due to the absence of a nearby fire extinguisher.

In that incident, no human injuries were reported either, although the smoke and a false seismic alarm that was received simultaneously on mobile phones caused moments of confusion among the workers and people present in the hospital.