Human Rights: Ibn Al-Khateeb Hospital is not ready for COVID-19 cases

INA – Baghdad

High Commission for Human Rights in Iraq identified the causes that led to the death and injury of dozens during the Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital fire, and while confirming that the incident was reminiscent of the Karrada tragedy, it indicated that the citizens were the ones who saved the patients.

"The service span of Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital and the rest of the similar hospitals ended a very long time ago, and therefore all devices and services related to the services have become outdated and do not fit the health reality," said the member of the Commission, Fadhil Al-Gharawi, in a statement to the Iraqi News Agency (INA).

Al-Gharawi added, “Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital is also not prepared to deal with the Corona pandemic cases,” pointing out that “the inmates who are in isolation wards, as it is supposed, are surrounded by escorts who fill the vacancy of the absent health staff, and therefore the families are forced to self-medicate their patients, and transfer oxygen bottles and other things,"