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The thin line marks today, 29 September 2026.

FirePatient

Fire Safety Week in Health Facilities (India)

Fire Safety Week is the Union Health Ministry's national campaign on fire safety in hospitals and clinics. The dates move each year: 21 to 25 April in 2025, and 4 to 10 May in 2026. Health facilities take a pledge, audit their fire and electrical systems, run evacuation drills in wards, intensive care and operating theatres, and train staff on getting patients out.

The organiser has not announced the next dates. This page will carry them as soon as Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India publishes them.

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When it falls

Dates are announced by the organiser each year.

Also known as: Fire Safety Week, Pan-India Fire Safety Week.

Where it came from

The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare launched a nationwide Fire Safety Week in April 2025, working with every state and union territory and with other central ministries, to push fire and electrical safety in public and private health facilities. The week opens with a pledge ceremony led by the Union Health Secretary and is built around fire safety audits, ward evacuation drills and staff training. In 2026 the Ministry used the week to release national guidelines on fire and life safety in healthcare facilities, with extra protocols for intensive care, neonatal and paediatric units and operating theatres.

First observed in 2025.

The organiser’s account of the day

How organisations mark it

  • Hold the pledge ceremony on the opening day with clinical and non-clinical staff together.
  • Complete a fire and electrical safety audit of the facility and file it where the Ministry asks.
  • Run mock evacuation drills in the high-risk areas: intensive care, neonatal and paediatric units and operating theatres.
  • Put staff through the iGOT fire safety course and keep a record of who has completed it.
  • Check that escape routes, fire doors, alarms and extinguishers are clear, serviced and signed.

Why this exists

Fire, burns & scalds

an estimated 180 000deaths from burns a year

Deaths from burns worldwide — worldwide, 2023. Source: World Health Organization, Burns (fact sheet) (2023).

“An estimated 180 000 deaths every year are caused by burns.”

More figures for this hazard

ObservanceNextKindWhereHazards
Fire Service Week and Fire Service Day (India)14–20 April 2027 ExpectedWeekIndiaFire
World Patient Safety Day17 September 2027 ExpectedDayWorldwidePatient
Fire Prevention Week4–10 October 2026 ConfirmedWeekUnited States, CanadaFireChildren

Sources

  1. Union Health Ministry observes Pan-India 'Fire Safety Week' from 21st to 25th April — Press Information Bureau, 22 April 2025 — www.pib.gov.in, read 19 September 2026.
  2. Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Launches Nationwide Fire Safety Week (4-10 May 2026) — Press Information Bureau, 4 May 2026 — www.pib.gov.in, read 19 September 2026.
  3. Press Information Bureau release text, PRID 2257800 (printable version) — www.pib.gov.in, read 19 September 2026.
  4. Press Information Bureau release text, PRID 2123418 (printable version) — www.pib.gov.in, read 19 September 2026.
  5. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India — www.mohfw.gov.in, read 19 September 2026.

Page last confirmed against the organiser on 19 September 2026.