The death toll from a fire that tore through a coronavirus hospital in southern Iraq has risen to 92, health officials say, as authorities face accusations of negligence from grieving relatives and a doctor who works there.
rose to 92, health officials said Tuesday, as authorities faced accusations of negligence from grieving relatives and a doctor who works there.An investigation showed the fire began when sparks from faulty wiring spread to an oxygen tank that then exploded, police and civil defense authorities said.
A medic at the hospital, who declined to give his name and whose shift ended a few hours before the fire broke out, said the absence of basic safety measures meant it was an accident in the making."We complained many times over the past three months that a tragedy could happen any moment from a cigarette stub but every time we get the same answer from health officials: 'we don't have enough money'.
People gather near a firefighting truck as a massive fire engulfs the coronavirus isolation ward of Al-Hussein hospital.The fact that the hospital had been built with lightweight panels separating the wards had made the fire spread faster, local civil defense authority head Salah Jabbar said. At the city's morgue, anger spread among people gathered as they waited to receive their relatives' bodies.
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