Over 23 Killed In Fire Outbreak At Iraqi Covid Hospital
April 26, 2021
3:10 am
No fewer than 23 people died when a fire broke out yesterday in a coronavirus intensive care unit in the capital of Iraq, a country with a severally dilapidated health infrastructure facing mounting Covid-19 cases.
The fire started with an explosion caused by ‘a fault in the storage of oxygen cylinders’, medical sources told journalists.
It spread quickly, according to the civil defence, as “the hospital had no fire protection system and false ceilings allowed the flames to spread to highly flammable products”.
Iraq’s hospitals have been worn down by decades of conflict and poor investment, with shortages …
