What a sad news in (IRAQ)At least twelve prematurely born babies were
killed in a fire that broke out in the early hours
of Wednesday on a maternity ward in a Baghdad
hospital and was probably caused by an
electrical fault, Iraqi authorities said.
Eleven or twelve other babies and 29 women
were rescued from the Yarmuk hospital's
maternity ward and transferred to other
hospitals, Hani al-Okabi, an MP who previouly
managed a health directorate in Baghdad, told
journalists after visiting the hospital and talking
to the management.
Firefighters and hospital staff took about three
hours to put out the blaze that engulfed the
ward, according to one medic. Yarmuk is a main
hospital on the western side of the capital, with
emergency care facilities among others.
"My son's birth was difficult," Shaima Hussein,
one of the babies' mothers, told Reuters news
agency at the gate of the hospital. She said she
was not given a chance to rescue her newborn.
"I came with milk powder for him, and then this
happened ... they shut the electricity and the
doors," she said.
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