Negligence blamed for Saturday night blaze as prime minister dismisses key hospital officials
Iraq’s interior ministry has said 82 people died and 110 were injured in a catastrophic fire that broke out in the intensive care unit of a Baghdad hospital tending to severely ill coronavirus patients.
Negligence on the part of hospital authorities has been blamed for the fire on Saturday night, which initial reports suggested was caused by an oxygen cylinder exploding in the ward of Ibn al-Khatib hospital.
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