Al-Kazemi approves the resignation of the Minister of Health, due to the Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital fire

The Iraqi Minister of Health, Hassan Al-Tamimi, resigned from his post, due to the Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital fire accident, which killed dozens of people and injured, and the Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi agreed to the request. Al-Tamimi’s resignation comes after the issuance of the report of the investigation committee formed in connection with the hospital accident.

The Iraqi Council of Ministers decided, in its session held today, to approve the recommendations of the investigation committee to impose disciplinary penalties commensurate with the severity of the accident against each of the hospital director, Salman Hamid Ali, his administrative assistant and the civil defense official, and to dismiss them from their positions, and to appoint the hospital director to a job level in accordance with the law . The Council relieved the Director General of Baghdad Health from his post and obligated the Ministry of Health to take the necessary measures to implement this in accordance with the law. Read also Most of the victims were cut off from oxygen .. These are the details of what happened at Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital in Baghdad The Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital tragedy is not the last … Why is the devastating fires scenario repeated in Iraq?Learn about the history of Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital in Iraq

The decisions included relieving the General Director of Al-Rusafa Health from his post, and ending the case of withdrawal of the hand stipulated in Cabinet Resolution No. (140 of 2021) against the Minister of Health and the Governor of Baghdad.

A fire broke out early last week at the Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital, designated for those infected with the Coronavirus, in Baghdad, killing 82 people, and wounding at least 110.