The oxygen for Corona virus patients has run out of a hospital in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq, while Iraqis have reacted to the burning of two floors of Al-Zahra Hospital in Wasit Governorate, southeast of Baghdad, where those who are infected with Corona lie, in conjunction with the Ministry of Health warning of a second wave of the virus if citizens do not comply.
Iraqis have called on social media to provide oxygen to hospitals designated to treat patients with the Corona virus after circulating video clips showing dozens gathering in front of the Hussein Hospital building in Nasiriyah and queues to receive oxygen cylinders in order to provide them to their patients in the hospital.
Through the "#Nasiriya_Choking" tag, Iraqis called on Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi to urgently intervene to save the lives of patients who need oxygen permanently due to the shortness of breath left by the Corona virus, calling for not underestimating the lives of Iraqis, and holding accountable the negligent and those in charge of running out of oxygen from hospitals.
صرية Nasiriyah does not breathe
again. Iraqis are killed in Nasiriyah by corruption of the ruling power parties. The
lack of oxygen is caused by the Minister of Health’s negligence in not dismissing the health manager of Dhi Qar, and the negligence of the governor of Dhi Qar who gave the director of health leave instead of dismissal
again. Lack of oxygen killing the people # Nasiriyah _ suffocates pic .twitter.com / almfbXB48V
- 𒀀𒆷𒂊 Ali Thani (@ alithesecond11) June 27, 2020
Al-Kazemi directed the Ministry of Industry and Minerals to operate all production lines for oxygen production, and to accelerate the addition of new production lines to support hospitals in the capital, Baghdad, and the rest of the provinces.
The director general of health of Dhi Qar Governorate, Hussein Al-Kanzawi, announced today, Sunday, that the director of Al-Hussein Teaching Hospital, Raji Mohsin Al-Musawi, was excused from the hospital’s administration, and that Saddam was given the responsibility of his thirsty person in his place, confirming the arrival of 30 tons of liquid oxygen to the province.
51 trillion Iraqi dinars, the budget of the Ministry of Health from 2006 to 2019, and hospitals free of oxygen !!!
Yaba, by God, behind God, on the previous systems, our children. How many hospitals did Shuei Jay work and live with your Lord if they didn't build them, where do we give our faces?
"May God's curse on the oppressors
# Nasseriya suffocate pic.twitter.com/NEnfC0RMjD
- Dr.мαнмσσd αℓιřαqι (@M_Albedairy) June 28, 2020
Iraqis also interacted with the combustion of two floors in Al-Zahra Hospital in Al-Kut, the center of Wasit Governorate, southeast of Baghdad, after circulating a video showing the exit of smoke clouds from the fourth and fifth floors, where those infected with the Corona virus lay.
High casualties,
and Iraq recorded 96 deaths from the emerging coronavirus, taking the total deaths of the virus in the country to 1756.
The Iraqi Ministry of Health said in a statement that 2140 new cases of the virus were recorded, bringing the total number to 45,402 cases, pointing out that 1,184 people were recovering, bringing the total number of people recovering from the virus to 21,122.
The ministry confirmed that Iraq is still in the first wave of Corona, and warned against entering the second wave of the epidemic in the event that citizens continue not to adhere to the embargo and the measures to prevent the virus.
In a related context, Iraq announced the death of 13 doctors and the injury of 775 others in Corona since the virus appeared in the country last February.
The Doctors ’Syndicate, Abd al-Amir al-Shammari said,“ The doctors are working at their full potential to provide services to patients according to the available capabilities, ”noting that they are exposed to daily attacks and insults from the families of the deceased with the virus.