Nine patients killed in hospital fire in northern Iran’s Rasht
Al Jazeera
All deaths from the blaze at Qaem Hospital were in the intensive care unit, according to local authorities.
Tehran, Iran – Nine patients have died after a fire broke out in the basement of a hospital in the city of Rasht in northern Iran.
The six women and three men killed were in the intensive care unit of Qaem Hospital, local authorities said. All the patients in the facility were evacuated.
Mohammad Taghi Ashoubi, the head of the Gilan University of Medical Sciences, told reporters on Tuesday that an intubated patient who was in the intensive care unit had died, while eight others were killed earlier.
“The cause of death of these patients is being investigated by the Gilan medical examiner,” he was quoted as saying by the state-run IRNA news agency.
Five infants who were at Qaem Hospital were transferred to the 17 Shahrivar Children’s Hospital and were in good health, he said.
