Over P30 million worth of properties and medical supplies were destroyed after a huge fire gutted the medical storage facility of Pasig City General Hospital (PCGH), the Bureau of Fire Protection (BFP-Pasig) disclosed Friday (May 14).

Superintendent John Pinagod Jr., BFP-Pasig chief, said many medical supplies were destroyed by the blaze while some were damaged.

“Because the damage caused by the fire is more than P30 million, we have turned over the investigation to the District. They will be the ones to determine the cause of the blaze,” he said.

“The fire on the fourth floor caused damage to the medical equipment located on the third floor. This was caused by heat conduction,” he added.

PCGH personnel told fire investigators that no COVID-19 vaccine was stored in the destroyed storage facility.

“In their affidavits, the personnel of the hospital said that the COVID-19 vaccines were at the medical storage facility of the hospital’s other building,” Pinagod said.

On May 12, the fire hit the hospital’s medical storage facility located on the fourth floor.

Fire investigators said the blaze reached the first alarm at 10:33 a.m.

At 11:09 a.m., BFP raised the alarm level to third alarm because the fire got stronger.

Pinagod declared fire out at 3 p.m. after they fully extinguished the blaze.

In a Twitter post, Mayor Vico Sotto said the fire became stronger after it consumed the hospital’s stockpile of alcohol.

“Salamat sa Diyos walang nasaktan, pero nilipat muna ang 14 pasyente sa ibang pasilidad sa Pasig (Thank God nobody was injured, but 14 patients were transferred to other facilities here in Pasig),” he said.

Sotto thanked Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso for offering to help with the transfer of the affected patients.