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Coronavirus: Death toll in fire at Iraqi COVID-19 hospital surpasses 80


He said he and others watched helplessly as one patient struggled to breathe amid the smoke.
Widespread negligence on the part of health officials is to blame for the fire, Iraq s prime minister, Mustafa al-Kadhimi, said Sunday. Following a special cabinet meeting to discuss the blaze, the government suspended key officials, including the health minister and the governor of Baghdad province. Other officials, including the hospital director, were dismissed from their posts.
It took firefighters and civil defence teams until early Sunday to put out the flames.
Among the dead were at least 28 patients on ventilators, tweeted Ali al-Bayati, a spokesman of the country s independent Human Rights Commission, a semi-official body. ....

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More than 80 killed in Iraq hospital fire housing COVID patients


Updated: 12:47 PM EDT Apr 25, 2021
By SAMYA KULLAB, Associated Press
The death toll from a massive fire at a Baghdad hospital for coronavirus patients rose to at least 82 Sunday as anxious families searched for missing relatives and the government suspended key health officials for alleged negligence.The flames, described by one witness as volcanoes of fire, swept through the intensive care unit of the Ibn al-Khatib Hospital, which tends exclusively to COVID-19 patients with severe symptoms. Officials said the blaze, which also injured 110 people, was set off by an exploding oxygen cylinder.Nurse Maher Ahmed was called to the scene late Saturday to help evacuate patients. I could not have imagined it would be a massive blaze like that, he said. The flames overwhelmed the hospital s second floor isolation hall within three to four minutes of the oxygen cylinder exploding, he said. Volcanoes of fire. Most of those killed suffered severe burns, he said. Ot ....

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