Workers begin US-funded refurbishment of Baghdad hospital damaged in deadly fire 12 Hours
The aftermath of the deadly fire in late April at at Baghdad s Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital. (Photo: AP)
ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The United States Embassy in Baghdad announced on Tuesday that it is providing the Iraqi government with much-needed assistance to rehabilitate the Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital for coronavirus patients in the Iraqi capital that was damaged by a deadly fire in late April.
An embassy statement explained that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) confirmed that the American Medical Students Association (AMSA), Iraq Branch, began cleaning several floors of the hospital building as the first step of reconstruction earlier on Tuesday.
26 Apr 2021
Protests broke out across Iraq on Sunday to denounce the Iraqi government’s alleged “mismanagement and corruption,” which many Iraqis say they blame for a hospital fire on Saturday in Baghdad that killed at least 82 people and injured an additional 112.
“Demonstrations took place in the provinces of Baghdad, Dhi Qar, Wasit, Babil, Karbala, Najaf, Muthanna and Basra in solidarity with the victims of the fire that ripped through Ibn al-Khatib Hospital on Saturday night,” the Iraqi Kurdish news agency Rudaw reported on April 25.
“What happened yesterday was a massacre, and it can happen in any hospital in any governorate in Iraq due to the dilapidated health system, so corrupt local governments must be dismissed first,” a protester named Saif al-Mansoori who demonstrated in the central city of Najaf on Sunday told Rudaw.
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