A fire broke out at Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the capital yesterday. More than 1200 patients, including those at ICUs, were evacuated after the fire spread out. The patients have also been admitted to different health facilities. Of them, around 180 were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), said in-charge of DMCH police camp sub-inspector Bachchu Mia. Many panicked patients rushed to safety seeing smoke billowing up into the sky, witnesses said. No casualty, however, was reported till filling of this report around 12:30am.