The Iraqi Ministry of Health has announced that 60 people have been confirmed dead in a fire at a hospital treating patients with the new coronavirus in southern Iraq in the Middle East.
Local health officials initially announced that 92 people had died, but corrected it.
A fire in a hospital in Nasiriya, southern Iraq, burned a ward treating patients with the new corona virus, killing 92 patients and health workers in total, local provincial health officials said. was doing.
The Iraqi Ministry of Health corrected that 60 people died, saying that "the number of victims was confirmed to be incorrect" on the 14th.
After that, the identities of 39 people have been confirmed, and the remaining 21 people are being identified.
Regarding the cause of the fire, local health authorities have announced that the explosion of an oxygen cylinder in the ward led to the fire, and police and others are investigating it in detail.
In Iraq, a fire broke out in April after an oxygen bomb exploded at a designated hospital for the new coronavirus in the capital Baghdad, killing more than 80 people and a medical system including hospital management from bereaved families. There are growing criticisms asking about the deficiencies of.