TEHRAN, Iran AP , Aug. 27, 2016— Iranian state media says a fire in a mental hospital has killed one person and wounded 35.
The official IRNA news agency says the fire broke out early Saturday in the northwestern city of Tabriz.
IRNA quotes Jali Sattari of the Tabriz fire department as saying one person died due to “thick smoke and confined space.”
Authorities have blamed a string of recent accidental explosions on disregard of safety regulations. On Wednesday, a gas explosion in a residential building in the southern Iranian city of Ahvaz killed six people and wounded 11.
Despite the recent windfall from the lifting of sanctions on Iran due to nuclear deal with the West, Iranian regime is using the money for terrorism operations and to prop up the Syrian dictator Bashar Assad instead of using that for civil and constrictive purposes. For example, according to experts, infections in Iran’s hospitals are still at a worrisome level.
They say that the hospital infection affects all wards of the hospital, but it is higher in the intensive care, pediatric and geriatric wards.
Infections can easily be transferred through people-to-people contacts as well as the environment and wastewater.
And according to Iranian regime’s own media, more than two third of Iran’s hospitals would totally or partially destroy in any moderate size earthquakes.
Source: extracted from AP report, Aug. 27, 2016
