Iraq: 82 wafariki baada ya mitungi ya oksijeni kulipuka katika hospitali inayohudumia wagonjwa wa covid-19

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Watu 82 wamefariki wengine zaidi ya 100 wamejeruhiwa baada ya mitungi ya oksijeni kulipuka katika hospitali ya Ibn Khatibu ambay ina wagnjwa wa COVID19, Jumamosi Usiku.

Waziri Mkuu wa Iraq, Mustafa al-Kadhimi amemsimamisha kazi Waziri wa Afya ili kupisha uchunguzi wa tukio hilo.

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At least 82 people have been killed in a fire at a hospital treating coronavirus patients in the capital of Iraq, Baghdad.

More than 100 others were injured in the blaze, which erupted at the Ibn Khatib hospital on Saturday night.

Reports say an accident had caused an oxygen tank to explode, sparking the blaze.

Videos on social media show firefighters scrambling to extinguish the flames as people flee the building.

Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Sunday suspended the health minister and ordered an investigation into the tragedy.

The head of Iraq's Civil Defence, Gen Kadhim Bohan, said the fire had broken out in the hospital's intensive-care unit, on a floor "designated for pulmonary resuscitation".

About "30 patients were in the intensive care unit", which was reserved for the most severe cases of Covid-19 in Baghdad, a hospital source told the AFP news agency.

The fire caused many of the oxygen tanks designated to support the #COVID19 patients in the hospital to explode. #Baghdad so far dozens of victims have been reported. pic.twitter.com/OAC8Jt3jq3
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The fire was under control by the early hours of Sunday morning, Iraq's Civil Defence said.

In a statement, the government's human rights commission said the incident was "a crime against patients exhausted by Covid-19".

Emergency service officials said many patients died when they were taken off oxygen machines to be evacuated, while others were suffocated by smoke.

"Once the fire started somebody needed to put the auto central pipes off, which means basically cutting the oxygen from those who need it most," Halla Sarraf, the director of Iraqi Health Access, a non-governmental organisation, told the BBC.
 
Oxygen hailipuki, ila kukiwa na mafuta itayachochea yawake zaidi iwapo patakuwa na moto
 
leo Iraq juzi juzi India

Mh! Haya bana... Corona kwa kweli umeseti na kuvunja rekodi ya vijimambo vingi katika bara mbali mbali!

tuombee tufikishe hiyo 'herd immunity' pale hizo chanjo zitakapo wafikia 70% ya wanadamu kwenye hii sayari!
 
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