At least 14 newborn babies killed after fire breaks out in Pakistan hospital

[KAL-EL]

As an outsider, I give my deepest condolences to all involved.

 

[PakFactor]

the question here is - what is next?
Because PTI is a cult, there is a messiah complex and at the end THAT TOO IS PART OF THE CULTURE.

When you see someone call IK their Murshid do you think it has anything less to with the peeri mureedi culture of wanting holy men to put in saffron and worship their graves?

To date from its peak in thousands people go to Bhutto's "Mazar" in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh? That man who has NOTHING that makes him holy, or in general other than the legacy of starting the bomb ruined Pakistan in so many ways.

There were people who for years went to Zia's grave "chadar charhanay"...
And Im sure there will be those who will go IK's grave - members here included.

What cultural change will that do?

The problem isnt "hakoomat ko galiyan" - DO BC - aik number ke harami hain wardi ke andar ya bahar.

Uss ke baad kya?
What is the plan?

Saaray Fauji maar dein?
Maar do - Sou bismillah.. Abay karo tu..

Then what @Jango ?
What happens after?
What's the plan after?

There is no next; the process of keeping calm and carrying on will move forward.

 

[PK781]

Chief justice of Islamabad High Court gets involved.

IHC chief justice seeks copy of inquiry report on fire at Pims, details of action taken

Justice Dogar also seeks report on plea regarding culpability of Pims ED; court hears another petition alleging non-implementation of fire safety laws in Islamabad.

www.dawn.com

gonglu se mitti jhaar raha hai.......nothing else to see there. Uske biwi bachon ne kaha hoga "abu aap b kuch kerain werna loag sawal kerainge ke cheap justice kya ker raha hai"

 

[Hussain]

One brave nurse rescued a newborn. Reports are she belongs to the Christian community.

'A daughter of the nation': PM Shehbaz lauds courage of Pims nurse Razia Noreen during hospital fire

Nurse thanks PM Shehbaz, expresses gratitude for bestowing Sitara-i-Khidmat, Rs10m reward on her.

www.dawn.com

 

[Watandar]

BBC coverage of the report on PIMS tragedy. No firealarms or sprinklers in neo-natal unit.

https://archive.ph/dqzWu

 

[HAIDER]

According to Punjab govt PIMS is state of the art hospital and can provide medical treatment to ex PM of Pakistan, where majority of medical machineries are non functional due to lack of funding and corruption.

 

[Lulldapull]

BBC coverage of the report on PIMS tragedy. No firealarms or sprinklers in neo-natal unit.

https://archive.ph/dqzWu

Paa G utthay logon nu key maloom fire alarm/ detector key honda hae?

Just a sad situation and hopefully a law is enacted now to install smoke/ fire alarms in hospitals at least.

 

[ghazi52]

No fire alarms or sprinklers at Pakistan hospital ward where 14 babies died, report finds​

Carrie Davies
Pakistan correspondent, Islamabad

Hivsa Walid describes grabbing newborn and fleeing from hospital as fire raged

An official inquiry into a Pakistan hospital fire that killed 14 babies last month has found the neonatal unit lacked fire alarms and sprinklers, while firefighters reported that escape routes were "locked or obstructed".

One firefighter, who asked to remain anonymous, told the BBC he had heard from other rescue workers that entering the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital in Islamabad was "extremely difficult".

"The doors were locked so they had to break through the windows to enter. Even after getting inside, the doors leading towards the ward were locked."

PIMS has not provided a comment on the report and its findings.

The firefighter said he arrived once the blaze had been put out.

It was "difficult for me to even describe what we saw," he said. "The medical equipment above [the babies] had melted and collapsed onto them."

The report from an investigative committee headed by a retired senior civil servant found "systemic and institutional failure" which meant what began as an electrical spark became a "catastrophe".

 

[ghazi52]

The report states that there was no functioning smoke detection, fire alarms or sprinkler system. It found no evidence that the staff in the unit had been trained or had ever rehearsed how to evacuate the ward of newborns, many of whom were premature or "medically fragile". It also found staff had not been trained on how to isolate the oxygen supply in the case of an emergency.

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Several people described chaos and confusion in the hospital.

"There should have been fire extinguishers and protocols, but no one was doing anything," Walid said. "Everyone was just running."

Ghafoor said that he was part of a group of seven or eight who tried to find a way to relieve the thick smoke; they managed to break glass panels at the end of the corridor before firefighters arrived.

The emergency services weren't notified about the fire until 06:54, the report says, nearly 20 minutes after it first began. It says the first rescue workers arrived at 07:01.

Like the firefighter who spoke to the BBC, Ghafoor also said rescue staff struggled to get through some of the hospital's doors.

At the time, the hospital's executive director had told BBC News that the door to the newborns' ward was not locked, but guarded, because of previous incidents of baby abductions from government hospitals.

The report says that while "ordinary access restrictions may be legitimate for security purposes… they cannot render designated emergency routes inaccessible when needed."