Fifty-eight people were killed in a fire that ravaged at a COVID-19 hospital in the Iraqi capital overnight Sunday, according to an official toll.
“The number of deaths as a result of the Ibn al-Khatib hospital fire was 58, of which 28 were on ventilators” being treated for Covid-19, Ali Bayati, a member of Iraq’s Human Rights Commission, said.
Iraqi policemen stand at an entrance to the Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital in Baghdad as people wait for relatives receiving COVID-19 treatment, on April 25, 2021, after a fire erupted in the medical facility reserved for the most severe coronavirus cases.An Iraqi woman walks past hospital beds placed outdoors at the Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital in Baghdad, on April 25, 2021, after a fire erupted in the medical facility reserved for the most severe coronavirus cases.
