Elaf from London: It was announced on Wednesday that a directive was issued by the Saudi monarch, King Salman bin Abdulaziz, to donate the Kingdom to rehabilitate Ibn Al -Khatib Hospital in Baghdad, which was destroyed by a fire last month and received the critical cases of those injured for treatment in its hospitals.
The Saudi embassy in Baghdad said in a statement that "Elaf" obtained its text that this donation comes from the ties of the brothers and good neighborhood and historical relations between the two countries and the two brotherly peoples as a gift from the Saudi monarch.
The embassy also announced the Kingdom's decision to receive critical cases from the injured in the fire to provide medical care for it in the Kingdom's hospitals at the expense of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques..The following is the journalistic statement of the embassy, in which it responds: "From the ties of the brothers, good neighborhood and historical relations between the two countries and the two brotherly peoples, and the belief of the Kingdom with its lofty message of standing by the Iraqi people in the incident of the fire of Ibn Al -Khatib Hospital..The Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the sisterly Republic of Iraq announces the issuance of the direction of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz- may God bless him- the Kingdom's donation to re-prepare Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, a gift from the shrine of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to the brotherly Iraqi people..
The fire of Ibn Al -Khatib Hospital, which is devoted to Corona patients in Baghdad on the 24th of last month, had killed 130 people and wounded about 300 others, according to the Iraqi Human Rights Commission as a result of the use of food heaters for some patients ’companions near oxygen packages, which led to their explosion and setting fire to the hospital.
On the fourth of this month, the US government announced that it would provide a grant for the required urgent assistance to rehabilitate and open Ibn Al -Khatib Hospital as soon as possible..Acting Assistant Foreign Minister Joy Hood said this assistance confirms the firm commitment to the United States to improve the health and welfare of the Iraqi people.
The American embassy in Baghdad said in a press statement that the United States government announced that it had provided the urgent required assistance to reopen Ibn Al -Khatib Hospital in Baghdad, which was severely damaged in a tragic fire..She added that through a grant from the USAID Agency (USAID), the American Medical Students Association (AMSA), Iraq Branch, legalized several floors from the hospital building today.F
واشارت الى انهFي الأسابيع المقبلة ستستبدل الوكالة الأميركية للتنمية الدولية المعدات الطبية وغير الطبية التي دُمرّت كما ستعمل الوكالة مع الدفاع المدنيFي بغداد على تنصيب منظومَةٍ جديدةٍ للسلامة من الحرائقFي المستشفى، والتي ستَشتَمِلُ على منظومة رش إلى جانب أجهزة كشف الدخان ومستلزمات إطفاء الحرائق وسلالم مخارج الحريق ولافتات الطوارئ.
وكان رئيس الوزراء العراقي مصطفى الكاظمي قد قبل مطلع الشهر الحالي استقالة وزير الصحة حسن التميمي وفرض عقوبات انضباطية على مسؤولين كبارFي الوزارة على خلفية حريق المستشفى وسقوط العشرات من الضحايا نتيجته.