12 newborns dead in Baghdad hospital 炎

A 解雇する/砲火/射撃 in the maternity 区 of one of Baghdad's main hospitals Wednesday killed 12 premature babies, 誘発するing Iraq's health 大臣 to 発表する her 辞職.

Only seven babies could be saved and were taken to another 区 in the Iraqi 資本/首都, said Jassem Lateef al-Hijami of the Baghdad health directorate.

Health 省 広報担当者 Ahmed al-Rudeini said the 炎 at the Yarmuk hospital in west Baghdad was started by an 電気の fault just after midnight (2100 GMT Tuesday).

Charred incubators sit outside Yarmuk hospital in west Baghdad on August 10, 2016 after an overnight fire tore through the maternity ward, killing at least 1...

Charred incubators sit outside Yarmuk hospital in west Baghdad on August 10, 2016 after an 夜通し 解雇する/砲火/射撃 tore through the maternity 区, 殺人,大当り at least 11 premature babies ?Sabah Arar (AFP)

"Twenty-nine women 患者s who were in the same 区 were 避難させるd to other hospitals," he told AFP.

安全 services 調印(する)d off the area as 法廷の teams searched the gutted 区 and angry 親族s 集まりd outside, waiting for (警察などへの)密告,告訴(状) from the 当局.

公式の/役人s and staff 示唆するd the 解雇する/砲火/射撃 器具/備品 was 不十分な and Health 大臣 Adila Hamoud 速く went on television to announc e her 辞職.

Charred incubators could be seen outside one of the 入り口s to the hospital, 接近 to which was 厳密に controlled by the police.

The grief of the (死が)奪い去るd parents and 親族s was 構内/化合物d by the fact that the babies' young age and the 影響s of the 解雇する/砲火/射撃 made it very difficult to identify the 団体/死体s.

Umm Ahmed (機の)カム to Yarmuk on Tuesday when a の近くに 親族 of hers gave birth. The baby died in the inferno and the mother 苦しむd 燃やすs, she said.

"I am looking for our child, they told me 'go find him in the fridge'," said the middle-老年の woman.

"I 設立する him in a small cardboard box but I'm not even sure if it's our child or a piece of sponge. It looks like charcoal," said the woman, wearing a 黒人/ボイコット over-衣料品.

"I just want our child, somebody give him to me," she cried.

- Poor services -

An 公式の/役人 at Iraq's 内部の 省 確認するd the death (死傷者)数 from the 解雇する/砲火/射撃, 追加するing that three other babies were 存在 扱う/治療するd for smoke inhalation.

Many of Baghdad's public hospitals are 貧しく 持続するd and 申し込む/申し出 sub-基準 healthcare, 軍隊ing a number of Iraqis to 捜し出す 私的な 治療 or travel abroad.

The 欠如(する) of 適する public services, such as 質 医療の care, electricity and water 供給(する), has 怒り/怒るd the public and led to a 一連の 抗議するs in the past year.

"The hospital is very old and doesn't have 解雇する/砲火/射撃 器具/備品," Hijami said.

A member of Yarmuk hospital staff who asked not to be 指名するd said a "徹底的な 調査" had been 開始する,打ち上げるd into the 悲劇.

The 当局 were criticised in the 影響 of an attack in the Karrada 地区 of Baghdad last month that killed at least 323 people.

The トラックで運ぶ 爆弾 爆破 (人命などを)奪う,主張するd by the Islamic 明言する/公表する group 誘発するd 解雇する/砲火/射撃s in shopping arcades on either 味方する of the street that accounted for a 重要な 割合 of the 死傷者s.

証言,証人/目撃するs complained that the 解雇する/砲火/射撃 旅団 was unacceptably slow in 答える/応じるing to the 緊急.

Iraq is one of the world's 最高の,を越す oil 生産者s but 衝突 and endemic 汚職,収賄 have 妨げるd that wealth from translating into better living 条件s for Iraqis.

A woman talks on the phone outside Yarmuk hospital in west Baghdad on August 10, 2016 after an overnight fire tore through the maternity ward, killing at lea...

A woman 会談 on the phone outside Yarmuk hospital in west Baghdad on August 10, 2016 after an 夜通し 解雇する/砲火/射撃 tore through the maternity 区, 殺人,大当り at least 11 premature babies ?Sabah Arar (AFP)

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