A FIRE ripped through Jazan General Hospital in the Kingdom’s south, on Thursday, killing at least 31 people and injuring over a hundred.
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The blaze, which Saudi news source media stated could have been started by an electrical drawback, left part of the general hospital in Jizan, a southwest port city, in blackened ruins.
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It broke out in the early hours of Thursday around the hospital’s intensive care, maternity and neonatal care wards. More than 100 people suffered serious injuries and were transferred to other hospitals soon after the fire was brought under control. The blaze killed at least 25 people and injured 107 others, though all intensive care patients and children were said to have survived.
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Al Riyadh daily quoted a Civil Defence spokesman as saying that the agency was alerted of the fire at 2am (2300 GMT Wednesday).
Photographs published on Twitter by the civil defence agency showed heavy smoke and an intense blaze which appeared to have severely damaged the interior of the white-walled hospital. Some rescuers used a ladder to gain access through a window.
The region’s director of health affairs, Ahmed al-Sahli, denied there were any safety problems at the hospital.
Twenty-one civil defence teams helped extinguish the fire, according to the agency.
Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent a cable to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, expressing deep condolences and honest sympathy over the victims of a fire that broke out at Jizan General Hospital. “Maybe this catastrophe could put the spotlight on the disastrous situation of hospitals in Jazan …” “What happened in this hospital was a crime of murder”, he told al-Arabiya.
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Jazan is near the border with Yemen, which has seen months of fighting between Houthi rebels and Saudi-backed forces.
