Tragic Incident:Everyone jump, doctors fall on cars, Fire in Baghdad hospital kills 82 people

Fire in Baghdad hospital kills 82 people The fire broke out on Saturday in Ibn Khatib hospital on Diyala Bridge in Baghdad.

                                 

Baghdad hospital kills 82 people The fire broke out on Saturday in Ibn Khatib hospital - Routers

Everyone jump, doctors fall on cars, Fire in Baghdad hospital kills 82 people The fire broke out on Saturday in Ibn Khatib hospital on Diyala Bridge in Baghdad. The ISTA fire, caused by an exploding oxygen tank, killed at least 82 people and injured 110 in a Baghdad hospital equipped to house Covid-19 patients, a Interior Ministry spokesman said on Sunday. 

"We urgently need to review the security measures in all hospitals to prevent such a painful incident from happening in the future," spokesman Khalid al-Muhanna told state television and announced the number of victims. The fire broke out at the Ibn Khatib Hospital in Diyala on Saturday. Ali Bayati, a member of Iraq's semi-official high commissioner for human rights, had previously said that the final death toll had not yet been officially announced, but that it could range between 30 and 45. 

A man who had visited his brother described people jumping out of the windows to flee.“The fire spread like firewood ... I took my brother to the street next to the checkpoint. Then I went back and went up from there. It was not burned on the top floor. Choking, like 19 years old, she was suffocating, she was about to die, "said Ahmed Zaki.

 I took her on my shoulders and ran. People jumped ... Doctors fell on cars. Everyone jumped. And I'm off I went up there, caught people and went back down, ”said Zaki.Patients were moved to other hospitals, medical sources said, but several families were still in the hospital hours after the fire was put out, unable to find them elsewhere.

 Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi ordered an investigation. negligent and therefore ordered an investigation to be launched immediately and detaining the hospital manager and safety and maintenance managers along with everyone involved until we identify the negligent and hold them accountable, 

"he said in a ruined health system through decades of sanctions, war and neglect A total of 102,5288 infections recorded during the coronavirus crisis, including 15,217 deaths, the Ministry of Health said on Saturday. It has improved in recent years. 

But Iraq has still been suffering from political violence, including rocket attacks by militias against foreign forces and a low-level Islamic State insurgency. Negligence and destroyed infrastructure have exacerbated the ills of ordinary Iraqis. At least 90 people were killed in 2019 when an overloaded ferry carried families on an excursion sank in the Ti gris and in the northern city of Mosul.