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El número de muertos aumenta a 92 en un incendio en el pabellón de coronavirus en Irak
El número de muertos aumenta a 92 en un incendio en el pabellón de coronavirus en Irak
El número de muertos por un incendio que arrasó la sala de un hospital contra el coronavirus aumentó a 92 el martes, informó la agencia estatal de noticias de Irak, mientras familiares angustiados enterraban a sus seres queridos y arremetían contra el gobierno por el segundo incidente del país. desastre en menos de tres meses.
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The death toll from a fire that swept through a hospital coronavirus ward climbed to 92 on Tuesday, Iraq’s state news agency reported, as anguished relatives buried their loved ones and lashed out at the government over the country’s second such disaster in less than three months.
Health officials said scores of others were injured in the blaze that erupted Monday at al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in Nasiriyah.
The tragedy cast a spotlight on what many have decried as widespread negligence and mismanagement in Iraq’s hospitals after decades of war and sanctions.
Fire at Coronavirus Hospital in Southern Iraq Kills at Least 92 People
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13 Jul 2021
A fire ripped through the Chinese coronavirus ward of a hospital in Nasiriyah, Iraq, on Monday, killing at least 92 people, Iraq’s state news agency reported Tuesday.
The incident took place at al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in Nasiriyah, the capital of Iraq’s southeastern Dhi Qar Governorate.
“The fire began in a quarantine facility for Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus] patients attached to the main hospital,” the
Wall Street Journalreported, citing local health officials.
“Health crews carried charred bodies out of the burning hospital while many patients were coughing from the rising smoke,” a Reuters journalist at the scene of the fire reported.