Watch the moment doctors scramble to evacuate COVID-19 patients from a ward after a ventilator exploded and flooded the room with thick smoke.

Footage from September 8 shows the ventilator in the background of the ICU randomly combust prompting medical professionals to hastily escort patients from the room.

The CCTV footage was captured in the SSG building at Vadorada hospital in western India, which is said to be the country's largest coronavirus facilities.

In western India biggest Covid-19 hospital witnessed fire inside the intensive care unit (ICU), CCTV footage of the incident shows that the fire was not from a short-circuit, but because of a ventilator placed inside the ICU-1 unit located on the first floor of the SSG building.

CCTV footage shows how the paramedical bravely rescued the patients one by one even as fire had started spreading inside the unit.

Its clearly shows that there was a kind of blast inside a ventilator after which the fire started resulting in panic among the staff and patients present inside the ICU.