Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi called for an immediate investigation and said the incident amounted to negligence.
At least 82 people died and 110 were wounded after a fire broke out in the intensive care unit of a hospital treating severe coronavirus patients in Iraq’s capital city of Baghdad on Saturday night, AP reported. The incident took place at Ibn al-Khatib hospital in the Diyala Bridge area after oxygen tanks exploded, two health officials at the facility told CNN. The blaze raged across the second floor of the hospital and relatives of the patients scrambled to save their loved ones.
